Don't be afraid. Don't be daunted. Just do your job. Continue to show up for your piece of it, whatever that might be.

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.

You love new boyfriend?" "I think so. Yes." "Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.

I believe that - if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression - that you should take on this work like a holy calling.

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Whatever this feeling is - this is what I have been praying for. And this is also what I have been praying to.

At that moment of realization (that union with God is always present), that's when God let me go, let me slide through His fingers with this last compassionate, unspoken message: You may return here once you have fully come to understand that you are always here.