“The most important thing to wear is a smile.”

“I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.”

“Who ran to help me when I fell, and would some pretty story tell, or kiss the place to make it well, My mother.”

“The most important thing we ever have to learn in life is to live with our choices.”

“The two of us praying like this to the Black Madonna Sudenly washes over me, and I'm filled with love for my mother. The best gift she has give me is the constancy of her belief. Whatever I become, she loves me. To her, I am enough.”

“Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear”

“To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.”