Quotes About Beattie

Minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Clichés so often befall vain people.

Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.

Rescuing and caretaking mean almost what they sound like. We rescue people from their responsibilities. We take care of people's responsibilities for them. Later we get mad at them for what we've done. Then we feel used and sorry for ourselves. That is the pattern, the triangle.

Some professionals say codependency isn't a disease; they say it's a normal reaction to abnormal people.9

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.