I used to consider myself to be a cineophile, and then I had a daughter. Ha! Now I barely see any movies.

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

A woman's happiness is in throwing everything away to live for love.

God will pardon me. It's his business.

I love reading poetry, and yet, at this point, the thought of writing a poem, to me, is tantamount to figuring out a trigonometry question.

As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.

No one hurts my family and lives

Sometimes you have to fight in order to be free.

We insist that God must surely lead everyone as we believe He has led us. We refuse to allow God the freedom to deal with each of us as individuals. When we think like that, we are legalistic.

I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don't see it as an immediate problem.

I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.

Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.