love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

- Ann Hood

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

- Ann Hood

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

- Ann Hood

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

- Ann Hood

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

- Ann Hood

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

- Ann Hood

We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes we…

- Ann Hood

When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical fig…

- Ann Hood

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

- Ann Hood