I never wear flats. My shoes are so high that sometimes when I step out of them, people look around in confusion and ask, "Where'd she go?" and I hav….

I'm trying..." How could I put it? "I'm trying to get far enough down the line so that I can remember." I stopped, then continued: "so that I can rem….

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had no idea how ….

People get sick and sometimes they get better and sometimes they don't. And it doesn't matter if the sickness is cancer or if it's depression. Someti….

Relationship gurus always said that an attraction based on friendship and mutual respect was far more likely to stay the course - and the bastards we….

I like hoodies. They just make me feel safe..

You know what it's like. Sometimes, you meet a wonderful person, but it's only for a brief instant. Maybe on vacation or on a train or maybe even in ….

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser..

I've kind of realized life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've rea….

The best anyone can do is breathe in, breathe out and wait for it to pass..

What doesn't kill us makes us funnier..

when happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life,it's important to make the most of it.It may not stay around for long and when it has gone woul….

Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic - you s….

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the….

I suppose I wanted to have my cake and eat it. But then again, what were you going to do with your cake if not eat it? Frame it? Use it as a sachet i….

Love is an emotion. It can't be seen or touched, and it is experienced differently by everyone, therefore it is difficult to measure..

Love is blind, there was no doubt about it. In Tara's case it was also deaf, dumb, dyslexic, had a bad hip and the beginnings of Alzheimer's.

Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative proce….

I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people….

So I'm back again to the eternal question, the one that has plagued me all my life: How Do Other People Do It? How come they were given life's rule b….