People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing.

The singular sign of a parent who is doing their job is their unwillingness to let their children watch the Star Wars prequels.

I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.

I usually approach things with the idea that I will take something out of everything I do.

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

People think they have the right to judge everything that I do.

There are certain sacred things in my life that I would never talk about. Because they are clear in my head, I can walk freely around the opposite side. I keep them completely separate in my mind.

I do not know where to go, but I have been on the road.

Rather than being incensed by the nature of the bruise, maybe we should be inspired by the possibilities in the bruise.

The error was not yours, Somerled, " Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.

My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

I was more of the kind of babysitter that liked holding the baby, sort of playing Mom, and then putting the baby to bed and watching TV while eating everything in their kitchen.

I'm not like a performer type.

Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.

The best rescues of all leave a family in a better place.

If I had to think where I could live if not Moscow, London would be my first choice and second would be New York.