“Now,young lady,I suppose you're here for a work assignment."Work?" Tally said.They both looked down at her puzzled expression, and Shay burst into laughter.”

“I spilled more times than a glass of milk on a roller coaster.”

“The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.”

“When she awoke, the world was on fire.”

“Shay sometimes talked in a mysterious way, like she was quoting the lyrics of some band no one else listened to.”

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”

“I could not think without writing.”

“Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”