I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

Tutoring a four year old to get into an exclusive preschool made as much sense as hiring a swim coach for a guppy.

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

Every year I tell myself that I’m not going to read any reviews and then I do. We’re all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it’s part of the game, you’re going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that’s how it goes. I don’t write for the reviews.