I'm the sheen on water, Rin thought. I'm a looking glass. I'm not real.

No more crying. It's all wetness and no comfort at all.

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

All I've ever wanted was to be near you.

Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.

It was karma, it was kismet, it was magic. It doesn't matter how it happened, just that it did.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

You are my butterfly and refuse to set you free.

I do like the world quite a lot.

In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed.

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

The key is being with the right people and making the right decisions.

You shouldn't own common stocks if a 50 per cent decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.