“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“When he sat across from her, barely enough personal space remained to be polite. She could feel a delicious heat coming off his body, smell a whiff of spicy cologne. Something stirred in her, sexual and dangerous. She stomped on it. This wasn't the time, this wasn't the place, and he definitely wasn't the right man to be attracted to.”

“And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was”