“Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.”

“All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before—but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.”

“It takes so long to put a movie into production and finish it that anyone with a bad idea has time to give it to you before the movie is completed.”

“It doesn't really seem possible that being happy is as simple as deciding to focus on what is good in the world and not on what is bad”

“I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman!”

“It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.”