You can spread your soul over a paddy field, you can whisper to a mango tree, you can feel the earth between your toes and know that this is the place, the place where it begins and ends. But what can you tell to a pile of bricks? The bricks will not be moved (page 87).

That Monica who's just gonna sit there in mediocrity... That Monica died in Samoa

I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.

Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

God is not a luxury you can't afford; He's a necessity you truly cannot live without!

You can't take my joy, because you didn't give it to me