Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.

For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.

One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.