“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”

“I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren’t all that different.”

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“What happens when people open their hearts?”
“They get better.”

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.”

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”