My mind was in my heart, anchored like a bright kite in a safe place.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.

But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.

There are people who have never studied writing who are capable of being writers. I know this because I am an example. I was a part-time registered nurse, a wife, and a mother when I began publishing. I'd taken no classes, had no experience, no knowledge of the publishing world, no agent, no contacts ... Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.