Occupation: Author Birth: October 24, 1977
They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel..
Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?.
I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart..
Ask two people to tell you anything, you’ll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like….
But I believe good things happen everyday. I believe good things happen even when bad things happen. And I believe on a happy day like today, we can ….
Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered..
The words you can't find, you borrow. We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. ….
People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good ….
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in ….
It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could..
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.
We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I….
In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end..
I have so much paperwork. I'm afraid my paperwork has paperwork..
Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve….
Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity..
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?.
The only love she inspires is the canine kind..
On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, strin….
It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed..
No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do..