Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

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.

The inability to rise above one's inherited ism and ideology makes one live and die a fool, just a folly.

I've been acting since second grade, telling stories, making my parents laugh here and there, so I'm hoping my "thing" is acting. But I also make a really good bread pudding.

Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.

I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

Reasons come first. Answers come second

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7.

Great books are written from a sense that there is nothing to lose.

As long as we love, we lend to the beloved object qualities of mind and heart which we deprive him of when the day of misunderstanding arrives.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

Not only do innovators have to deal with all of the fundamental challenges of innovation, they have to do so in an environment that often is implicitly hostile towards innovation.