In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own. - Anna Quindlen

A book — the book that was, for some reason, THE book — can be reread, unchanged. Only we have changed. And that makes all the difference.

But no one ever leaves the town where they grew up, not really, even if they go.

Some of my best friends are men. It is simply that I think women are superior to men. There, I've said it. It's my dirty little secret. [...]
The other day, a very wise friend of mine asked "Have you ever noticed that what passes as a terrific man would only be an adequate woman?" A Roman candle went off in my head; she was absolutely right. What I expect from my male friends is that there are polite and clean. What I expect from my female friends is unconditional love, the ability to finish my sentences for me when I am sobbing, and the ability to tell me why the meat thermometer isn't supposed to touch the bone.