You have to grab life by the throat and squeeze before it grabs you by your neck and breaks it. Own your destiny.
How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.
Female friendship was one-tenth prevention and nine-tenths cleanup.
Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way.
I think the posture of confidence can serve you well. I'm not sure what's to be gained by sitting at your computer and beating yourself up.
With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.
Novels definitely come more naturally to me. When I write short stories, it's always a fight against it expanding.
One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
Never give up. Never stop being creative in finding ways to get exposure. Also, prepared anytime and all the time. You never know who you will run into.
As I look back upon my life, I see that every part of it was a preparation for the next. The most trivial of incidents fits into the larger pattern like a mosaic in a preconceived design.
I am a glutton for a beautiful hotel. I am so easily smitten by high thread counts.