Katherine Sherar Pannill Center (born March 4, 1972) is a contemporary American fiction author.
It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.
We're looking for stories that speak to us. We're looking for stories that connect us with something true. But, instead, a lot of the time we get strippers. All I'm saying is, when boys are writing the stories, the percentage of strippers is bound to go up. And real stories about real women kinda don't get written at all.
We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.
There is no tenderness without bravery.
We all carry our mothers inside us.
In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.
That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.
It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.
Our lives disappear, even as we live them.
It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter.
The eyes see everything through the heart.
Beauty comes from tenderness.
Look for beauty in everything.
Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.
I believe women are too hard on themselves. I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe the eyes see everything through the heart. Nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.
Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
It's vital to learn how to make the best of things.
I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore. . . You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.
Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.
My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.