To everybody who didn't believe in me, thank you. Because of you, I had to find my own way, and I did.

Attachment to the hurt is the root of all suffering.

It's not that life is good or bad. Life just is. It's how you handle the shitty situations that will determine whether it's good or bad.

I'm the most awesome person I know.

My heart has had love and lost love but it keeps on loving. That's just what hearts do.

Standing alone is better than standing with people who don't appreciate you.

People who want to sit around, star gaze and talk about their dreams are my favourite kind of people.

...but I am only one, and if I can make a difference, so can you...

It's not always about fixing what is broken. Sometimes it's about starting over and creating something new.

Make your desire for a better life stronger than your desire to stay in misery.

Not all broken things need to be fixed.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

Who hasn't made mistakes? I once french kissed a dog at a party to try to impress what turned out to be a very tall 12 year old.

I think I would envy me too, if I didn't know me better.

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you.

The living Word is able to destroy Satanic forces.

The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel.

I no longer run barefoot.