It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s true — a hundred times over — of love.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.