The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

Every choice we make is either a growth choice or a fear choice.

What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and time to read, and you need a few friends and you need someone-not to take care of you, but to care for you. If you have all those things, you'll always be alright.

The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.

A piece of writing is only worth doing if you're a different person at the end of the process than you were at the beginning.

The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories.

Even in your smallest gestures, you express your sense of honor, if you have one.