Are we letting the world influence the church more than the church is affecting those in the world?

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I'm just trying to trust that.

There was something peculiarly gratifying about shouting in a blind rage until your words ran out.

Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.

Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.

I had experiences along the way that helped me to realize that letting go was the way that worked for me to find something that I, personally, as a reader, love to read.

I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.

For me, it's better to wake up with a paintbrush than a knife in my hand. -Peeta

I don't want to write a novel per year. I know that I need a break of one or two years. So maybe I invent some new, urgent activity so I don't fall into the trap of starting a new novel.

I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.