Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

People aren't always what you want them to be

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Free the snow globes!

It's always darkest before the ultimate sparkle.

Board the cows! We've come to enslave your marigolds.

All things are possible.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become.

I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound." - Carol Kennicott

I’m beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.

Women want a man who is sensitive, but god forbid you can't get it up after being frightened by a small woodland animal.

On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.

If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.

There's nothing there — get rid of that!

Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.

HOW LONG??? No rules on time .. the more aligned you are with positive feelings the quicker things happen.