I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

I have my father's lopsided mouth. When I smile, my lips slope to one side. My doctor sister calls it my cerebral palsy mouth. I am very much a daddy's girl, and even though I would rather my smile wasn't crooked, there is something moving for me about having a mouth exactly like my father's.

Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out