When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

Happiness is what you choose to remember.

No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst.

The first time someone I loved left me behind...I didn't know how my family would balance. We had been such a sturdy little end table, four solid legs. I was sure we would now be off-kilter, always unstable. Until one day I looked more closely, and realized that we had simply become a stool.

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore