“Creativity is the Blue Heron within us waiting to fly; through her imagination, all things become possible.”

“Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny.”

“What good are dreams if they lie only in closed boxes.”

“Don't give life to regrets and live on ifs and only, when you can no more unscramble an egg than change the past.”

“Everyone is fond of plucky children, kids who launch into adventures, even (within reason) kids who sass back. What about the girl who sits for a long time and watches other children going down the slide, whose legs quiver just from imagining how it will feel to stand at the top of that silver swoop into the unknown?”

“A girl never forgets two things: the day she started her period for the first time, and the day she met the love of her life.”

“Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)”