I even love the smell of books.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.

When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.