My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

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.

Employment... is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered the mother of misery.

Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.

We're hoping for the best, but we need to prepare for the worst.

You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is.

Our wounds are our sources of growth.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.

People underestimate me, but I've always been a stretch runner.

Focus on what you have.