Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.

And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, for the small dragons that live under the streets.

Don't punish yourselves for people's ignorant reactions to what we all are. Don't let ignorance win. Let love.

Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.

The 1st day, I stood in the kitchen leaning against the counter watching Annie feed the cats, and I knew I wanted to do that forever.

The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every time when you finally get there.

But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?