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" I don't think anyone would bat an eye if I wrote a song. "

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" If you are heartbroken and can't face the world, you need something with a fantastic plot. You won't be able to read anything boring because your attention span when you are heartbroken decreases by three-quarters. "

" You see, I am friends with a lobsterman. Because we are friends, which feels lucky anyway, I get access to the most amazing fish. It's like having a backstage pass - a culinary jackpot that feels almost undeserved. "

" It's not easy to slather your face with oil. It requires a little bit of work to smooth it on and rub it in. You become more familiar with the feel of your own skin and face. "

" There has never been a shrimp that I've eaten that I haven't been like, 'I am so lucky that I get to eat this.' I would eat a shrimp enchilada, shrimp burrito, shrimp cocktail, fried shrimp, shrimp po boy, shrimp gumbo. "

" I am not a writer, but I have been told I write good emails. "

" I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much. "

" When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become. "

" I dropped off my kids from 10 to 2, went to the library, and just wrote. This is my second career - I'm 41 - and I'm a terrible speller. "

" Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life. "

" In New York, everybody looks great and is well dressed, but seeing someone in Ohio wearing Marc Jacobs is like spotting an owl in Central Park. Rare. "

" Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak. "

" Sprinkling drops of lavender and clary-sage oil into a bath is a totally simple yet complex pleasure. "

" When I was growing up, my mother worked, and in the evenings, the whole family would sit around the dinner table and recount the day. "

" Life is funny, at the same time being totally harsh. "

" I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head. "

" Growing up, I'll always remember knowing from movies and TV that there was a possibility that you wouldn't fall in love. I always thought, 'Oh my God, I hope I'm not that person.' "

" When your heart is broken, you feel like no freaking book in the world could help you because a book is not the person who you love, who doesn't love you. However, books help, if only because they serve as something you can hold in your hand and throw across the room in agony. "

" I love teenagers. I loved being a teenager. "

Being A Teenager

" As moisturizers, oils rapidly penetrate the deeper layers of the skin, protecting against the breakdown of proteins in the cell wall with fatty and linoleic acids, mimicking what our bodies produce naturally. The oils also function as humectants, which help our skin retain moisture. "

" Skeptical of strangers, lobstermen are keepers of secrets, working in the howling wind and hot sun, the icy snows, and bewildering fog. When I was growing up, the lore was that they had the right to shoot anyone who messed with their traps. "

" You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better. "

" I think even if you haven't been divorced, you can hopefully relate to having to navigate through a really difficult time and see how you can get through to the other side and how you can stay positive, even if there's some really bad stuff happening. "

" I didn't think anything I wrote was going to get published. I'm a dyslexic kid who had tutors through college. But I had a very strong impulse to write. "

" Therapy is therapy. Writing is for writing. "

" No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life. "

" The Oberlin/Cleveland area is where the underground railroad came out, so it's an interesting historical place. I love Ohio and really loved Oberlin. "

" There are a lot of great love stories. It's just the best thing. Why wouldn't you write about it? Why wouldn't you want to read about it? But it's hard to write about. It's weird to have such a powerful and universal feeling and hope that you can write that and make it real for people. "

" I've always been the person at the table who is like, 'I have this weird rash. Anybody else have this?' "

" My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie. "

" Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life. "