I believed our touching to be more intense because of it's very holding back. Belief is always a choice.
I'm nothing but envious that you've been happily married for two years. Try hauling your cookies on a new blind date every Friday, only to have your, already extremely low, expectations dashed as you meet men who look like Quasimodo and have Homer Si...
She had married him because she felt sage, because she'd had enough pain to last her a lifetime, and because although he had many faults, faults she was aware of before she married him, she knew he wouldn't hurt her. She knew because there was no pas...
The fact is that blaming doesn't get you anywhere. It keeps you stuck. Blaming stops you from moving on with your life.
... you don't have to wait for someone to treat you bad repeatedly. All it takes is once, and if they get away with it that once, if they know they can treat you like that, then it sets the pattern for the future.
Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.
They had always dreamed of a large family but have now realized that they would be equally blessed to have even one child.
Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.
As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.
I am beginning to realize, at the ripe old age of twenty-nine, that one of the problems I have in life is a tendency to completely romanticize how things will be in the future, which inevitably leads to disappointment because it's pretty much never, ...
He turned and pulled her in, placed his hands on the sides of her face and gazed into her eyes, his head moving closer and closer----she still couldn't say anything, couldn't think of anything other than his mouth landing on hers.
That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.
I think friendship is more important than love, but that love that grows out of friendship is the very best of all.
Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.
I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.
The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most of my time incognito, and in fact were you to pass me in the street you would think I was just another dowdy suburban mom.
I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation.
Writing is a muscle that needs to be exercised every day: The more you write, the easier it becomes.
I adore children, but I was never that interested in new born babies. It's a terrible thing to have to admit, and you're not supposed to think that way as a woman, but everyone promises it's different when you have your own. It wasn't for me, though.
