What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?

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.

Skill follows the rules, talent breaks the rules, mastery shatters the rules, but genius makes its own rules.

He left to do whatever editors do.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

…it struck Mr. Jelliby that a wide-eyed faery was not a surprised faery. It was an angry, angry faery.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.

Ooh, I'd love to be in a movie with Meryl Streep or Martin Scorsese. There are so many different things I want to do, maybe like a possessed child or an evil something... I don't know!

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Don't let anyone else take the measure of your worth and capabilities. Always stand proud in who you are!

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.