He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

Sorry but nothing of much importance ever happened to me...I'm just a girl who forgot to look both ways before crossing the street.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

Why do two people fall in love? It's a mystery.

I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.