This was too much. "I refuse. I absolutely REFUSE to be an onion.

Good manners are very important, particularly in the morning.

I think that’s whats wrong with the world. No one says what they feel, they always hold it inside. They’re sad, but they don’t cry. They’re happy, but they don’t dance or sing. They’re angry, but they don’t scream. Because if they do, they feel ashamed. And that’s the worst feeling in the world. So everyone walks with their heads down and no one sees how beautiful the sky is.

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

There are as many ways to live as there are people.