“What would Jesus do with this gift of writing, this God-given love of writing? What would He write?”

“You've made a god of your fear and jealousy, Sister. For what is a god but what we go to again and again?”

“There are things I want in life - things I need, things I mean to do,' Olivia went on. 'I just don't know what they are.”

“As long as a man has two hands and a strong back, he can make things happen. It's no good being fearful. Worry won't change the future a whit, and it misses the joy of this glad day.”

“My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.”

“Yet she couldn’t help herself. She couldn’t stop writing. She was like a medium receiving messages from the dead.”

“... I would far rather get to be ninety years old and look back and say, "I tried my damnedest" to succeed, rather than get to be ninety and think, "I wonder what would have happened if only I had done something different.Katie's character, Julia's Chocolates”