“Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.”

“It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.”

“Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.”

“You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.”

“Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic," Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.”

“You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.”

“Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.”

“Oh, Sweetie. No one ever gets through their TBR list. For every book you finish, you'll add five more. That's just the way it works.”

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”

“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”

“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”

“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”