...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

Blood rushed to the regions of my body that I associated with naughtiness, and I was powerless to stop it.

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.

Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. We need to stand up and be clear that we don't want this, we need to celebrate diversity. America is great because America is good.

Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.

You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul-be your own keeper.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

The PC is the LSD of the '90s.