Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.

He wasn't what I'd thought he was; maybe he never had been. I wasn't what I'd thought I was, either.

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again!

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

The only thing I can't stand more than seeing something done wrong is seeing it done slowly.

It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice, and this was it, where she felt safe, in a world she could, for the most part, control.