We're each given one life, and it's our job to make it useful, beautiful, and fulfilling. There is no value in suffering through it, doing something ….

Everyone tells you to write what you know. It’s the tried-and-true advice every writer hears at some point in her career. But to take my writing to a….

Marriage, my dear, is not suicide..

All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities..

I'm no longer willing to let myself down..

You know, things fall apart. You grieve. And then you sit around and wait for things to somehow get perfect again. But they don’t. They never can. Th….

The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is when someone can appreciate ….

Great love endures time, heartache, and distance. And even when all seems lost, true love lives on..

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer..

The stars have their own language, you know. If you're careful, you can learn it..

People are much like those stars up there. Some burn faintly for millions of years, barely visible to us on earth. They're there, but you'd hardly kn….

Whenever you’re down on your luck, and when things aren’t going the way you like, remember that you are the author of your own story. You can write i….