Good God. I don’t believe St. Vincent and the word ‘celibacy’ have ever been mentioned in the same sentence before.

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.

Some people there's no getting over.

...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.

... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.

Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.