She was the only creature in the world who would really care if something happened to me, even if it was only because I was the bringer of kibble.

Long-haired Chihuahuas have no notion they are bite-sized.

My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Taylor: what do you hear? Daisy: Nothing but rain

That was easy for him to say when his cell phone was rounding third base. If anyone got a home run tonight, I didn't want it to be Verizon Wireless.

Faith isn't absence of doubt. It's belief without proof, not without question.

Don’t ever trust anyone who’s writing a book. They make up lies for a living.

How about this?" I said, because now it was the principle of the thing. "I'm sorry, jackass.

Focus, Amy. Just because he looked great in the saddle did not mean he wasn't an axe murderer.

"Oh My God," I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. "It's the axe murderer." "I doubt he would knock," she said, but she was whispering, too, and didn't move away from me.

The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.

People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna do.

Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

Not enough." Margo rose and tucked the towel in place. " Come on, let's go stuff her in a locker. For old time's sake.

A river reaches places its source never knows.