Out of all the things I do, I think being a mom is the most important and satisfying.

Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.

Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.

A stóirín, ya are a handful of trouble, but I kind of like it.

He kissed the corner of her lips before whispering by her ear, “And that was just my hand, love.

He’s not wearing…” Charlotte began.“I know. He doesn’t, ” Lydia answered.

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.

I choose to write characters from the inside because I feel like that's the way I'm gonna get the most honest version of them.

What you come to discover is, it isn't how you get there, it's that you get there. If that's what it took to get me where I'm at today, so be it.

it’s easy to get outside yourself when you’re thinking about someone else.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.

The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

I think of moving as a kind of saving grace.

The family is the great catechism God has given the world. The work of our lifetime is to learn how to read it and then study it prayerfully.

I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.

I've always been creative, with a huge amount of energy.