“Being discouraged is natural but giving up is not an option.”

“The grass may be greener on the other side, but will the sky be as blue?”

“Write bravely but for goodness sakes, use chapters.”

“I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.”

“Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of beauty.”

“Questions, questions – you wear me out with your questions, child. Find out for yourself – we all have to in the end. No one can give you faith. It is a gift from God alone. Seek and ye shall find. Read the Gospels. There is no other way. Do not pester me with your everlasting questions. Go with God, child; just go with God.”

“ Alessandra wrote:To label this book "Dr. Seuss" is too much.He never yet wrote it, nor genius it touched.It's flat, it's pedantic, it leaves children bored,The very things Teddy S. Geisel abhorred.Go read some real Dr. Seuss if you wish.Let these hand-puppet zombies drone on about fish.”