Dad thinks I'm ready to fly around the country as the Ambassador of Hope, but Mom thinks I'm a frail little bird with broken wings.

Some stories won't have a happy ending, but there's always hope that the next one will. Hope is everything. Even when there's nothing else. Especially when there's nothing else.

Hope is made of air, and wishes. An empty box wrapped in shiny paper.

My father is using me as a message of hope. My sister is using me as a message of fear.I don't want to be used by anybody.

Do it double, because some can't do it at all.

Something contracts in my chest. The air shifts, grows heavy and dense as mud. Alexa twists her hair around her finger and whispers, "Didn't you even try to escape, Charlotte?

I say to my sister, "I thought you were doing the things in our Dream Book. I was sure of it." "Why would I do that stuff without you?" "Because you could.""Well, you were wrong.

Very little effort is needed to create a prosperous life. Focus on positivity, prosperity, and love.

You have to have faith if you want to make it out of the woods. Faith is your only hope for deliverance.

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We only win at war because we fight another government. If we fought private industry we would not last until noontime.

If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet.

I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on the page and you don't want to stop.

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.

Play is your route to mastery.

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.