"I'm a believer in belief. Faith is something that works - it causes people to do things, it has results. It's an intangible, indefinable, very real thing. And it moves people, sometimes to atrocity. And sometimes to survival."

"I'm so suspicious of boys-slash-men. I just don't like them or trust them."

"I believe that every interaction is an act of fate in some way, that we're meant to interact with them, and it's our job to flesh that out and experience it to the fullest and learn the lessons we're meant to."

"You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in."

"You really can't teach reading as a science. Love gets mixed up in it."

"Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."