It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever time it takes or pain it may cause. It can pay to the future what you owe to the past.

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

Cleaning up with children around is like shoveling during a blizzard

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.