Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

One didn't issue instructions to comets. Grown children did what they had to do, and parents could only grit their teeth and watch and pray for them to get through it.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.