You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey.

Don't ever forget your history," she sang, "or any wicked soul can lie to you and get away with it.

You can't do anything for a person who is stuck between being happy and being miserable. All you can do is get trapped in the middle, and anyone in the middle just gets squished.' -Grandma

Don't ever go to war. Even if you win, the battle is never over inside you.

...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

Because each book has its own special perfume.