Biography
"Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right."
"Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone."
"I think Heaven will be like a first kiss."
"Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it."
"I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was."
"People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long."
"Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too."
"Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map."
"If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away"
"You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation."
"Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something."
"But she couldn't start this, because then it would end. Stories like this always ended. She couldn't take this pleasure, because she would spend the rest of her life missing it, hurting from it."
"We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today."
"It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways."
"Sitting at the old patio table she’d cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the trees, like Christmas lights. She felt like part of the hollow around her was filling. She’d come here with too many expectations."
"My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories."
"He claimed the waters must have, indeed, been healing, because look how hard his journey was on him to get there, and how easy it was on him to get home."
"To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story."
"It was hard not to feel sorry for a life that had no purpose of its own... His only purpose, it seemed, was to come into her mother's life in order to send her home. For that, Bay decided, she would be grateful.For the rest, though, she wondered if she would ever be able to forgive him. She hoped she wouldn't remember him long enough to find out."
"Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress."