My mom used to tell me that whatever you do, marry someone who loves you more than you love him.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling.

The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

Education is the ability to meet life's situations.

My favorite thing to do is put my headphones on and cruise around the old neighborhoods.

I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again.

I’m unelectable in the District of Columbia.