Someday I'll wish upon a star And wake up where the clouds Are far behind me Where troubles melt like lemon drops Away above the chimney tops that's where you'll find me

We travel to new places, with every book, we read.

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

I got halfway through 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.' I don't get it at all. What's the big thrill? It's boring.

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously.

You know the rule: If you are falling, dive. Do the thing that has to be done.

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.