She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with

Find the goddess inside yourself instead of looking for the god in someone else.

Every girl is a goddess.

No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.

When you live in a city with no stars to wish on, you have to wish on each other.

Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder.

If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea.

Magic can be found in stolen moments.

The girl in the mirror wasn't who I wanted to be and her life wasn't the one I wanted to have.

In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.

The game isn't over until it's over.

We love in others what we lack ourselves and would be everything but what we are.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

Bad criticism has followed things like comic books or TV, and they put down a medium. A medium cannot be inherently good or bad.

There is no mountain anywhere everyman ignorance is his own mountain

Under no circumstances trust a lean cook.

A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.

When you've married someone who's been at war, there is nothing you can do that compares to that level of selflessness and bravery.

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.