The book that made me want to be a writer in the first place was Gone with the Wind - I read it and wanted to create a whole world out of words, too.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it?

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.