Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.

Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby - awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.

Accidents happen all the time.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

Say whatever, plan whatever (I really don't care), but the action and the result is the important the other is theory.

Being the evil undead wasn't fun anymore. For one thing, it was increasingly hard to get a library card.

A day is a day. It’s just a measurement of time. Whether it’s a good day or a bad day is up to you. It’s all a matter of perception.

Nerves provide me with energy. ... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.

You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.

They say a blind hog will find the acorn one day.

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .