Female friendships are important because they help define us in a particular time and place.

Everyone wants to play. They're just afraid of looking stupid. But you know what's stupid? Not trying. So just...try.

We can be so much braver and bolder with a good friend by our side!

When I look back at high school, or college, or when I was getting married, it's the girlfriends I had then that give substance and joy to that point in my life.

I wonder what it would feel like to laugh like that, with complete abandon.

If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.

A seal the size of Canada attaches to her soul light.

You’re beautiful. If you believe it, they’ll believe it.

But let me tell ya, spend every day living only for yourself, every day indulging in little sins that aren’t that big of a deal, and one day I may be showing you the ropes in hell. Amen.

We girls are prewired to like things that make you suffer.

I wonder if Blue knows she’s repainting her room.I wonder if he’s asking if she wants a ride to the party tonight.I wonder if he knows what being strangled feels like.

Writers owed their readers a duty of care, of mercy.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

Stop worrying about what others think. At the end of the day, you have to live with you. Trust yourself. No one has to tell you when it's right. Do what you need to do.

There's no right one way to go through life.

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are.

Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.

Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!

... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled

I don't think I'm a collector. I think every kid from where I'm from had a terrible passion for having to have fresh kicks.

We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.