Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance.

I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.

Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.

Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.

But it was important to simply be sought, even if you didn‟t ever want to be found.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.