When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

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When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.

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You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

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Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

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I look as young as a person can look given how old I am.

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Marriages come and go, but divorce is forever.

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Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

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I'm very much a believer in knowing what it is that you love doing so you can do a great deal of it.

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Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

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