She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

I'm who i wasn't yesterday and who i won't be tomorrow.

I awoke one morning and found myself famous.

There seems to be so much shame wrapped up in speech disabilities. It seems very sad and complicated all at the same time.

Valentine's Day money-saving tip: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th.

If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.

There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.

I'm also very pleased at the fact we're well on our way in Indiana to becoming the most pro-adoption state in America. I think if you're going to be pro-life, you should - you should be pro-adoption.

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

Life's too slippery for books, Clarice; anger appears as lust, lupus presents as hives.