Perhaps I shouldn’t like it so much, but I’ve always been one for finding beauty in the ugliest stories.

Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.

Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.

Holy crow!" ~Bella Swan