She wanted to be buried in a coffin filled with used paperbacks.

You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)

In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a book rightfully be called a book if it never gets read? If a tree falls in a forest and gets pulped to make paper for a book that never gets read, but there's nobody there to read it, does it make a sound?

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared.