When you're 25 or 30, you know, you can't wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

I'm shining like fireworks over your sad, empty town

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry

You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

No matter how bad your day is, just be grateful this day is added to your life.

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want.

I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

I love the term "everything is copy," attributed to Nora Ephron, which was my guiding principle as I wrote.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.

Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.