“Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words to father have such a different meaning from the words to mother.”

“Flora would have liked to ask her parents why the words ‘to father’ have such a different meaning from the words ‘to mother’.”

“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.”

“Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”