I can’t think of a better rationale to create a work of art. I don’t care what form one’s art takes, it has to be an attempt to leave the world a better place than it was before we got here or it’s no...
I don't want to live in the kind of world where we don't look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I cant change the way anybody else thi...
The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship require...
What if time's not linear, the way people think it is? What if the past, present and future are all going on at the same time, only they're separated by- oh, I don't know- a kind of gauze or something...
The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.
People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time coping in life than the people who have. They don’t have access to all the lessons that can be learned from the journeys th...
Maybe there’s something you can learn from being a cat instead of a little girl. What
Everybody's got a true home—maybe not where they're living, butwhere their heart lives.
Don't forget - no one else sees the world the way you do, so no one else can tell the stories that you have to tell.
A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another min...
Leaned forward as well. He put his hand behind her head and gently pulled her toward him and then he kissed her in a way Izzy had never been kissed before. There was tenderness in the soft brush of hi...
She should have gotten a dog instead of having a kid. Dogs are easy to train and they like being led around on a leash.
Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural...
If everybody really and truly treated each other the way they’d want to be treated, all the problems of the world would be solved. Nobody would starve, because nobody’d want to go hungry themselves. N...
I'm not as trusting as people think I am. Sure, I see the best in people, but that doesn't mean it's really there.
Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.
But if I could just get som ehint, some sign... Conchita smiles, without humor, but with great affection. That's the point behind faith, she says. It's not something you can prove....I know you hate t...
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.
It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.