“Everybody is a main character to someone...”

“I've been in love with you since you helped me bury that spider in my garden, and you sang with me like we were singing Amazing Grace instead of The Itsy, Bitsy Spider. I've loved you since you quo...”

“I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged...”

“Think about it. There isn't heartache if there hasn't been joy. I wouldn't feel loss if there hadn't been love. You couldn't take my pain away without removing Bailey from my heart. I would rather ...”

“True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the...”

“People liked religion but they didn't want to have to excercise any faith. Religion was comforting with all its structure and its rules. It made people feel safe. But faith wasn't safe. Faith was h...”

“She wondered how it would feel to be beautiful and have it taken away. How much harder would it be than never knowing what it felt like in the first place?”

“True beauty, the kind that doesnt fade or wash off, takes time. It takes pressure. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that makes the stalactite, the shaking of the earth that create...”

“He was right that I was afraid. But I didnt think I was afraid of the truth. I was afraid of believing something that would destroy me if it turned out to be a lie.”

“Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation. (p.232)”

“Do you think I'm pretty?I think you're beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

“As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”