Are non-readers totally clueless about how obnoxious it is to be engrossed in your book only to find someone suddenly talking to you?

If you’re not reading, you’re not participating in your own industry.

What does a girl have, really, if her word cannot be trusted?

I am many things, Detective Cassano, but safe isn’t one of them.

I can get so caught up in talking about writing with Bronte that I don’t get any actual writing done.

C. S. Lewis said, “Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean ‘very’; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

To care means to be brave.

As the brilliant sunset cools to gray, I vow my anger over blatant discrimination will not cool. As these rocks stay steady through season changes and time, so I will remain steady. I will not be silent. I will not let this go.

To love anyone is to risk.

You'll wake up one day and find you're almost forty, and you haven't done any of the things you wanted. That you let in so many voices when you were trying to make decisions, instead of listening to the One voice that mattered, that you never decided anything at all.