So why did he do it?"Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love.

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.

I look at you, and I think about you, and ... I don't know. No one has ever confounded me the way you do.

It's become impossible to deny he means something to me.

Life isn’t about what you get, it’s about what you DO with what you get.

What...what about when I'm married?”“We'll buy a cot. Your husband can sleep on that when he visits.

Cricket Bell.” I smiled into my phone. “How did you get so wise?

Thank you for helping my sister, ” he says.I lean forward, mimicking his position. “I’m happy to.”Calliope leans out her window. “STOP FLIRTING AND GET BACK TO WORK.

Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask me.

So why did he do it?"Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love.

There isn’t any doubt I’m stuck in stress and depression.

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more.

Change what you can, darlin'. That's my best advice.

Are you going to put some clothes on?" she blurted out."No. Are you going to take yours off?""No.""Right. Of course not.

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance among the pines.

If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

It's not enough to be American. You always have to be something else, Irish-American, German-American, and you'd wonder how they'd get along if someone hadn't invented the hyphen

The pearl whose possession separates man from beast, the pearl which is the rarest find - the best among virtues - is forgiveness.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.