Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

We are taught to be suspicious, especially of anyone who might not look like us or share our beliefs.

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.

If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

I am a totally public person.

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise. Whereas now when people come up to me, they say, "I love the bookstore" and "Kids! Come here, come here! This is the woman who owns the bookstore." That's incredible. I can say to that, "Thank you for shopping local. Thank you for coming in. What are you reading? Let's talk about books." It's about something I'm doing as opposed to somehow something I am. I feel comfortable and positive in that role. Because it's about reading. It's about books. It's about learning. It's about business and tax base.

If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."