You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.