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

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

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

When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be with someone and everything is fine and then all of a sudden it can wash over me like a sickness, that I need the quiet of my own self. I need to unload my head and look at what I've got in there so far. See it. Think what it means. I always need to come back to being alone for a while.

No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

Reading Claire Cooks novel is like eating some exotic dish about which you say, Wow, this is great! Whats in it? The ingredients here are: intelligence, humor, poignancy, revelation and, perhaps best of all, true originality. Ready to Fall seems to me to be ready to soar.