A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It’s a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to,...

Aprendi que viajar ainda é a melhor forma de alterar a vida, mudar as ideias e abraçar a inspiração, mas devemos estar de olhos bem abertos e ansiosos por agarrá-la, ou é um desperdício.

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

Adoro ver os barcos no rio Hudson, mas é muito diferente de estar num que balança e galga as ondas. Admira-me que a viagem seja tão agitada, porque do cais os barcos parecem deslizar sobre...

If you look around to find meaning in everything that happens, you will end up disappointed. Sometimes there aren’t reasons behind the terrible things that go on. I ask myself, If I knew all the...

Isn’t this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly...

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships – they can’t. It interferes.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

I love you , Valentine’ is actually a popular phrase used in greeting cards.”If you were sending me one, what would it say?” he asks.I love you, too, Roman.”And there it is, words that I...

My mother was an avid reader…She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes…

If only men came made to order. It’s so hard to find a decent fellow.

This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a leap…

I used to believe my art had to be about the things that brought me joy and gave me hope. But I learned that art can be found in all of life, even in pain....

There’s nothing an artist needs more – even more than excellent tools and stamina – than a deadline.

It [money] doesn’t have anything have anything to do with the magnificence of a person. It doesn’t. What matters is what you make. Whether it’s a cake for bingo night or a costume for a...

I don’t settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

When I observe Gram, I see how fragile the notion of tradition can be. If I take my eyes off the way she kneads her Easter bread, or if I fail to study the way...

You’ll always be my girl. You were from the first moment I saw you. You were sitting in church with your brothers. You were eight years old, and I was twelve, and I thought, I...

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don’t judge.

Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don’t feed the source, it dissipates entirely.Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you’re free...

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick – she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

… but that’s the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy – and as far as boys go,...

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Romy had never done a budget, Marisol had never designed costumes and sets, and Suzanne had never acted, but when I asked them to help, they didn’t hesitate

Really? We are being herded on a bus to drive across town to an all-boy academy where we disembark and join our lonely counterparts on a dance floor. Sounds like a scorecard situation to me.

I even love the smell of books.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

The dance that I wasn’t going to attend in about a jillion years just turned into a make-out session with random boys we have never met.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother’s house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

That’s when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you — without you asking.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.

Whever I came into the room, she’d light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. Looking...

It can never be equal.”But what if the woman loves the man more?”A life of hell awaits her. As women, the deck is stacked against us because time is our enemy. We age, while men...

No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is...

All your life you was one thing. And now you can be something else if you want! Somebody completely different. You can actually start yourself over from scratch. Turn yourself into what you have always...

I don’t use a crap camera, I don’t eat junk, and I’m not going to a dance where the boys are bores