I feel a strange, fierce squeeze in my heart when I see him, like pride, although there's nothing about Sean that I can take credit for.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

Many, many readers have written asking me wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace's relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won't settle for less.

Get some money, buy a red coffeepot, move out. Find a new place to plug it in.

I leaned across the table towards the crumb-thrower. "Do that again," I said, loud enough to be heard over the opera singer, Dolly, my mother, and the smell of the breadsticks, "and I will sell your firstborn child to the devil.

sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .