“One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is, is four or five days that change everything.”

FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and admiration in my heart for the girl Maura Conlon was and the writer she became.

As the days went on, I didn’t mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them.

At the end of the day, you can have all the talent in the world. But if you don’t put in the work, nothing works. The engine doesn’t start going. It’s a car without gas.

Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you’re going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain’t going to touch my stuff.

If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces.

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone’s wrapping fish in it.

Do I feel good enough? Do I feel big enough? Do I feel sexy enough?” Some days, the answer is ‘yes’ but sometimes it’s not.

The day I take either my body or my work for granted will be the day you hear that I’ve smashed every inch of myself to pieces.

Even offering three hundred bowls of food three times a day does not match the spiritual merit gained in one moment of love.