Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

Wow. The guy can make me feel stupid even when he's telling me I don't have to let him make me feel stupid.

The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

Kids who don't eavesdrop on adult conversations are doomed to a childhood of ignorance.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

First you buy me a mocha. Then you let me help you hide a body. Now you take me to a biker clubhouse. Best. Day. Ever.

He was trying to tell me something.' Derek snorted. 'Aren’t they all? Must be a rule in the ghost handbook—if in danger of evaporating, make sure you’re in the middle of a dire pronouncement.

I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo.

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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress for no particular excellence in themselves but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

I love decorating my home. I'm a gardener too, so that's usually something I have to play catch up with.

God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

Put variety in white.

You people married to Italian men, you know what it's like.

Climate change isnʼt a distant threat. Itʼs already changing the way we live.

We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

I would have picked up the artificial heart and thrown it on the floor and walked out and said he's dead if the press had not been there.