Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.

There's no style, nobody dresses up-you can't be chic [in San Francisco]

Love meant something to her, she dreamt of it, thought of it, wrote of it. It was the one thing in life that had eluded her completely.

A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.