Our destiny is in the way we were born, in the way we were raised, in the sum of the three of us.

You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back.

A highly cultivated taste, a taste that is knowledgeable and eclectic, is likely to be exciting and provocative, a personal taste at its highest level.

Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

Hurts and disappointments can hold gifts.

She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.