sometimes you need to make a mess.

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.

Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.

Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.

[Carmen] knew a worse friend would have made her feel better.

Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.

Don't let the doubt in, because when it does it ruins everything.

You know you're getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

Too many bands practice in their garage, play a couple of shows locally, and expect opportunities to appear from the sky. Bands have to push, work, grind, and struggle to make it happen on their own.

Candor is a compliment; it implies equality. It's how true friends talk.

What is gained through ignorance is bound to be lost through ignorance