“People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.”

“You have to move forward in life. You can’t sit in the same place, unless you want to, that’s a choice too. But you can’t sit there because someone else says you have to, because your moving forward makes them uncomfortable.”Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. “Country.” Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.”

“Some things in life are worth waiting for.”

“No man can take your freedom from you. They can limit your mobility, but that's about all they can do”

“Things work out the way they're meant to”

“If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.”

“In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry.”

“I studied literature design and fashion design.”

“I'm astonished by my success. I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.”

“People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.”

“I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.”