I come from people who have always been polite enough to feel that nothing has ever happened to them.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

For now I'm just enjoying being a mom. I don't want to be more famous and more rich. I want to be a good mom.

I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.

Wasn't that awesome?" Seth asked. Warren cocked his head, his expression mildly embarrassed. "I'm sorry, Kendra--it was pretty cool." "All boys belong in insane asylums," Kendra said.

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

I know I just need to be me.

I've always had to work hard for what I've got and to stay where I was.

My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one! It seemed not so wild a dream.

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

Pride is both a virtue and a vice.