I’m very organized – and the best thing – when you love your work, you don’t mind putting in 15 hour days. It’s joyful.
This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap...
Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.
Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.
Isn’t this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.
People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother’s house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.
This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling.
I don’t use a crap camera, I don’t eat junk, and I’m not going to a dance where the boys are bores.
The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.
Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn’t worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.
A practical girl never pines; she takes action.
For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.
I am in total silence when I write – I don’t even like the sound of the dryer going – I like the quiet.
The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse’s ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.
Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.
Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.
The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you’ve solved the mystery.
But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship’s manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.
And so, when I was a young writer I always worked hard on imagery, and I knew that the roots of imagery were the senses – and that if my readers could feel, taste and see what I was talking about, I would be able to tell them a story.
The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.