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Sometimes you have to destroy things, even people, in order to save them. (7)

There's always time to read. Don't trust a writer who doesn't read. It's like eating food prepared by a cook who doesn't eat.

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions.

McCafferty's was a Mount Washington steak house, sort of the Palm Lite, with caricatures of Baltimore celebrities hanging

Going to college don't make you from somewhere, any more than a cat born in an over can call itself a biscuit.

Tess's Uncle Donald winced when he entered the Kibbitz Room at Attman's Delicatessen. The pained expression

Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.

Literally. Unlike most people, even allegedly educated ones, he used

Bad taste never dies. It just keeps evolving.

My family is really, really Southern - I had two uncle Bubbas, and grandparents that we called Big Mama and Big Daddy.

In fact, I think every book I've written has been inspired by a real event.

Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Everyone thinks everything's a waste of time when it's not the thing that leads to an answer.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

She was a polite person, and politeness meant making others feel better even if it made you feel like shit.

Coitus interruptus by SWAT team. At last a form of birth control that was one hundred percent reliable.

I'm for anything that lets writers stretch, in or out of their series.

Hate how swiftly the world moves now, how glib everyone has become. We need to think more, not more quickly.

How magnanimous was a gesture if one were constantly aware of its magnanimity?

I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.

You can rewrite life all you want, Sandy thought,. It's still a play where everyone dies in the end.

Everyone cared what others thought, even those who were defiantly different. They cared more than anyone.

Bring wine," she hissed into the phone. "And Matthew's pizza. Those lima beans with feta cheese from Mezze. Sopa-pillas from Golden West. Hurry!

Reporting is pretty vital to me. It keeps me connected to the world. A 40-hour-per-week day job may be less feasible as time goes on.

It's very different to have this kid that I'm truly responsible for.

It's smarter to be lucky than it's lucky to be smart.

Stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

When destiny wants to fuck with you, it can afford to be patient. Destiny has all the time in the world.

Just because you worked hard on something didn't make it worth doing.

and a Dr. Brown's celery soda.

I like to see writers reach bigger and bigger audiences, and stand-alones have allowed some of them to do just that.

Listen, you know? Girls. They don't listen. They're in too much

Fenwick, sitting down to

Feeding her raw oysters at Charleston, or sharing the gingerbread with lemon chiffon sauce at Bicycle.

Cain - and the password, "Indemnity." Given how rapidly management changed at the Beacon-Light, it was entirely plausible that this familiar

There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

She liked what she saw, although she knew being a not-beautiful woman was supposed to be a tragedy.

he began, over dinner at Cantler's, a much beloved but out-of-the-way restaurant near

sound silly, but I figured out that being happy made me happier than being unhappy ever did." Tess replayed these words in

All life is hindsight, really, stories informed by their endings.

No one in the world loved you quite the way a younger sibling did.

Doing nothing," Inez said, "is a choice in its own way. When you do nothing, you still do something.

What was the point of giving children freedom to experiment and fail, if one then turned it all into a tiresome object lesson?

They were, as a family, constantly on the verge of being dangerously, enviably cute.

I begin each book with a challenge to myself.

Satisfactory husband that he was, he was a man and not one inclined to wax poetic about a day of cupcakes and movies.

Her dilemma - the eternal human dilemma - is that she wants a chance to revisit her choices with full knowledge of the future.