"I write down everything I eat and count the calories so I don't go over a certain amount. Everyone should do this if they are dieting or not. I think we all would be shocked by it."

“For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!”

Source : Avi (2008). “A Beginning, a Muddle, and an End: The Right Way to Write Writing”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I was a Harry Potter nerd. Pencils were wands. I was going to Hogwarts. The whole thing. You don't understand what a nerd I am. I mean, if they remade them, I'd still go. Like, I've seen all of [the originals], and that's always going to be Harry. That's always going to be Ron and Hermione. But if they did it again, I absolutely would go, because I want to see it all again.”

“Everyone has light around them, except for you. You have shadows.”

“We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.”

“This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.”

Source : FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from May 16, 2012

“The soul that is the abode of chastity acquires an energy which enables her to surmount with ease the obstacles that lie along the path of duty.”

“I've always felt lucky because my parents included my sister and I in their cultural life.”

“A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.”