I will at least have gained one ver

Let me never be complete. Let me never be content. Let me never be perfect.

Received a gift - it was the first decent piece of instruction about marriage I had ever been given in my twenty-five years of life. Does your husband make you a better person? Edra asked. There I was...

Overnight everyone has grown up. While she was becoming, everyone grew up and became.

But here is a confession, which I also happily shared with him at our last meeting, which happened as I was completing this book: I had never thought this deeply about my own craft and what makes a...

Makes sense to me. Sometimes starting over is exactly what a person needs. And I think it's admirable. A lot of people don't have the courage it takes to do something like that.

On him at the time of his majority, and was more than enough for his needs. He would live his own life, then, far from Melbourne and parents, carve his own kind of niche. But the imminence

It's tough to live with people stuck in the past, isn't it?

can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

anger is the emotion of a lesser person.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

Two people can be part of the same event, but one may choose to live it quite differently from the other. One may choose to trust that what happened, painful as it may be, holds a promise. The other...

You've got to jump off cliffs - and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY

If the comments are wrong, there is really nothing for you to be upset about. On the other hand, if the criticism is accurate, there is still no reason for you to feel overwhelmed. You're not expected...

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

The plays he had liked were the one called Measure for Measure, and another one called Macbeth. They were easy to follow, and what happened in them was kind of like what happened in junior high...

Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.

He wasn't going to send her to any hospital. He knew that now. At a hospital they'd just start shooting her full of drugs and tell her to adjust. What they wouldn't see is that she is adjusting....

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

I don't want to be defined by this.

I assumed that people weren't doing their best so I judged them and constantly fought being disappointed, which was easier than setting boundaries. Boundaries are hard when you want to be liked and...