I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Smile as often as possible and love as much as you can ❤ In the end...the heart felt memories you leave behind is all that really counts!

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book.

I bolted upright in my bed, gasping for air and still feeling his touch on my hand. I could feel him watching me. I could feel him waiting for me.

There was nothing I could say in retaliation except something that would confuse her.

I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money.

I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.

The value of an item—in the mind of a consumer—is simply the difference between the anticipated price and the price on the tag.

Becoming a mother has taught me to simply things and also to appreciate being at home more.

Baseball isn't a business; it's more like a disease.