You went up a girl and came down a woman.

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426

Choices may be unbelievably hard but they're never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.

I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

We are the choices we make.

In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.

... a good idea always attracts other good ideas.

The warmth and the passion in my veins are more than enough for a hundred thirsty girls.

I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word

No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.

Wayne's done way more for my career than Jay-Z. Wayne is the reason I'm here.

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but it's also a great honor to be a woman poet. I put those things together.

Live in such a way that people who know you but don't know Christ will want to know Christ because of you.

I'm not at a point in my life when I'm analyzing too much.

Those who are right do not argue. Those who argue are not right.

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.