I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.

Jeez Louise. I know why rich people are so thin: it's from trekking around their humongous houses the whole time.

Our eyes met in the math class. How were we to know that trigonometry would lead to matrimony?

A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.

You know what Hans told me last week?" she says as I open the door of my fitting room. "He told me to write down a list of everything I wanted to say about that women-and then tear it up. He said I'd feel a sense of freedom." "Oh right," I say interestedly. "So what happened?" "I wrote it all down," says Laurel. "And then I mailed it to her!

Everyone keeps saying I’ll pick it up. But what if I don’t? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.