“I'm completely fine with being weird...it keeps me from getting bored with myself.”

“Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.”

“A kiss is only as sweet as the heart that gives it.”

“Word count doesn't tell me when a story ends, my characters will tell me.”

“Some phone calls he doesn't say much and I know he called just to hear my voice. That's all he wants- to hear me tell him about my day, what the surf's like, what work's like. And that's humbling, knowing that your voice can mean so much to another person.”

“Sometimes what you fear the most to do is the very thing that will set you free.”

“My anxiety house a house and a fence and a deer in the yard. A zip code. A plague of starlings.”