Never underestimate the joy of being married to the one man at the party who knows how to dance.

Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let’s Make A Deal .

Because I know what it’s like to pour your heart and soul into a book, day after day after day, when it comes to the work of other authors, I either give them five stars – or say nothing! I simply can’t bring myself to do anything else.

I’d spent so many years doing things I didn’t really want to do for people I didn’t really like.

If you’re not really into something, you don’t put the time in, so you don’t get good at it. Passion is the key to everyone’s gifts.

But if you truly want to reinvent your life, you’re going to have to learn to say yes. Even if it feels selfish. Or scary.

Your problem, my darling daughter, is that you’re afraid you’re going to miss something. But what you don’t realize is that, by not making a decision, you’re missing it all.

In surfing, and maybe even in life, the trick is to use the calm between the waves to position yourself for the next one.

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn’t want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

Why is it that even when you’re trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?