I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real.... Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.

Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

Feel lucky for what you have when you have it. Isn't that the point? Happily ever after doesn't mean happy forever.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

I wasn't quite as certain that I knew her soul. When it came right down to it, I wasn't sure she knew me either.