There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

You should not have kissed me, " she replied breathlessly."I do a lot of things I shouldn't. It does not mean I won't do them again.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! [...] I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God's heaven to kill Indians.

You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.

the choices we made today were templates for the future.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.