You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.