After all, I wasn't a bad person. I was just doing my best in what had turned out to be a fairly imperfect life.

I want you to be with someone who really, really loves you. A wild love! A crazy love! I want yours to be the greatest love story of all time!

Whoever you end up with, you shouldn't be changing a thing for them. Nothing. Don't be with anyone if you can't be you. Because you're bang on just as you are.

I wondered if perhaps I'd gone mad. I had known this man less than twenty-four hours and already I wanted to raise his children.

He walked towards me. My heart was pounding like a nineties warehouse rave.

You are the most ludicrous excuse for a man I've ever known - but there isn't a centimetre of you that I don't think is perfect.

I'm eating a massive pastrami sandwich. It's so beautiful I might cry. Just so you know.

I was going to write a sharp witty email full of devastating one-liners but I suspect you want something nicer than that

Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls "Knock and Pray". He says parents should invite their kids to unscheduled times to "pray... big".

Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

It was one of those moments that no scientist can ever reduce to numbers, try as she might.

When a friend, then, indulges in the joy unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself.

Dialogue's a method of revelation, of course. A few words of dialogue can reveal worlds about a character.

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

You mean you don’t know? (Wulf) No. In fact, I’m thinking right now that one, if not both of us, needs to put down the crack pipe and start this night over. (Cassandra)

Forgiveness doesn't mean we have to pretend someone didn't hurt us.