"Anyone who consistently makes you feel bad is not helping you get better."

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

Source : Scott Westerfeld (2013). “Mind-Rain: Your Favorite Authors on Scott Westerfeld's Uglies Series”, p.207, BenBella Books, Inc.

“At the end of the day, you release music because you believe in the songs and believe that they're honest. That's all you can really hope for.”

“He ... knew, in that instant, that his life would not be an easy one-he was different, he looked different, he thought differently.”

“Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab stories from... people starting over completely, saying goodbye to their lives before... it never ends in terms of story opportunities.”

Source : "In Plain Sight Mary Mccormack & Fred Weller Interview". Interview with Lena Lamoray, lenalamoray.com. April 28, 2011.

“When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.”

“What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?”

“But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.”

“I escaped London in 1997 because it was hard to raise capital.”