If you feel lucky, then you are.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

I believe women are too hard on themselves. I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe the eyes see everything through the heart. Nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.