“Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn’t it?”

But sometimes, it’s harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

You’re every single fantasy I’ve ever had.

Looking for the good in people is never stupid.

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.

I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple? Why can’t it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can’t live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together?

Some things are just perfect, even when they don’t make any sense

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

I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.

I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn’t like my voice.

I think,” Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, “that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

If a cook can’t make soup between two and seven, she can’t make it in a week.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.