When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.

Fifty-percent of the director's job honestly is casting the movie well.

Laughing doesn't make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better. It doesn't mean you don't care, or that you've forgotten. It just means you're human.

There was a girl who could fly, a boy who had bees living inside him, a brother and sister who could lift boulders over their heads.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

So one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered. I’d been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated.