In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

Just ask yourself, if we weren't taught to be women, what would we be? (Ask yourself this question even if you're a man, and don't cheat by changing the words.)

In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.

There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.

Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.