“I searched my mind for the right visualization. I knew it had to start with what I put in my head. That is where all my accomplishments are formed.”

“Make ready your mind." "Imagine, create, balance, control.""You Are Already There!”

“Inside the maze there are no limits, no boundaries, where you could go anywhere your creative thoughts could take you.”

“Taryn Mitchell," he said, looking me in the eyes. "I love you. With all my heart."I felt all the blood rush from my body and surge right into my chest. All this time I waited for a man to say those words to me and mean it, and now I was hearing them from the one person I had hoped would say them. I gazed into his eyes and said what was in my heart. It was as easy and natural as breathing. "I love you too - more than anything in this world.”

“Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful: Straight Greek eyebrows. They start at the hairline at my temple and, left unchecked, will grow straight across my face and onto yours.”

“Are you mad that he's here?" Marie whispered in my ear.I shook my head while I prepared two vodka tonics."Well, you look mad." She laughed at me. "What's wrong?" "I'm allergic to whores," I said under my breath.”

“I had my hair in a ponytail and looked my trademark exhausted.”