My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.

It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

Your career will include thousands of opportunities to transform yourself. Many will disrupt all that you have built. Each is an opportunity to choose to be vulnerable, to let go, to be reborn.

Happiness is a drug, and only few know how to take it properly.

Please come back soon. The window is always open.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

Every woman's wardrobe should include black.

... character reigns preeminent in determining potential.

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

If your business isn't the best quality, it will not succeed.