"Never confuse looking your best with doing your best."

“Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way someone falling down in the street is funny. I entered a revolving door and emerged as a human being. When you think of me is my face electronically blurred?”

“So many other people are saying #NotMyPresident [on Donald Trump].”

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

Source : Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

“reading is not a passive act. It's a creative act. It's a relationship between the writer and a person the writer will probably never meet. I think it's very wrong to write in a way that leaves no room for the reader to maneuver. I don't want to get in the way. What I'd really like to do is to perform the Indian Rope Trick - go higher and higher and eventually disappear.”

Source : Interview with Lori Blackman, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2000.

“I've destroyed my feet completely but I don't care. What do you really need your feet for anyway”

“Visions possess greater significance than just entertainment! Visions have power.”

“It is the folly of weak-minded people, to imagine they are what flattery or conceit represents them; and that it is useless for them to be what they are not, since they seem already to have acquired the reputation of it.”

“Emotionally, in our minds, we get so filled with resentments where we've got a story about absolutely everything.”