WORTH IT and perfect are different things. No one’s perfect, yet in romance, everyone becomes WORTH IT. And that’s the trick.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.

The cast of Hamlet had not moved much. They had that haunted yet hopeful look in their eyes, like the ones you see in photographs of people crammed into steerage compartments, traveling to some new, unknown land.

Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

Sometimes it is worth any amount of suffering just to prevent giving your parents the opportunity to be right.

Harry Potter achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a childrens book.