The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

You know how hind-sight is 20/20? Love is when you look back and wouldn't change anything.

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

Inside each of us is a monster; inside each of us is a saint. The real question is which one we nurture the most, which one will smite the other.