I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.

When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.

What I think," Chatty says, "is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.

Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.

Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, "I knew girls who saved his gum."