Quotes from Deborah Norville

I want my kids to be curious, to be interested in a lot of things, to be confident, and to feel they belong in any number of situations.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Grateful people may recover faster from trauma.

I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good.

There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.

It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

If you want to be liked, get a dog. The people you work with are not your friends.

I'm about as straight an arrow as you'll find out there.

If I have time to exercise, I do it, but I don't fixate on numbers like weight or waist size. Numbers don't work for me.

So for years I kept mum about my passion for needle arts.