...the greatest weapon against big stupid men was a sharp mind.

What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?" "Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand.

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.

Hold my hand because I might disappear.

But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.

Do you think people have noticed that I'm around?" "I notice when you're not. Does that count?

No," I say, looking up at Griggs. "It's actually because my heart belongs to someone else." And if I could bottle the look on his face, I'd keep it by my bedside for the rest of my life.

The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.

Maybe memories should be left the way they are.

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.

I'm your biggest fan, California, I'm coming home

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on - almost too good.

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.

It's very gratifying to me to see my works bringing people closer to my country.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's like sweat, on people's backs.

I've done so much stuff and it's all so different.