Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.

To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult didn't have to be shouted to bleed; a vow didn't have to be whispered to make you believe. Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

It's crazy, right? To love someone who's hurt you? It's even crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.