Hope you're keeping the dust out of your eyes and your feet off the ground.

You make me lovely, and it's so lovely to be lovely to the one I love.

What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.

You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don’t have to do them all at once.

Right before my eyes, I could see my life going away from me and there was nothing I could do.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own - my words are gone.