Katherine Sherar Pannill Center (born March 4, 1972) is a contemporary American fiction author.
If you feel lucky, then you are.
There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.
The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.
It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.
There is no tenderness without bravery.
Beauty comes from tenderness.
It's vital to learn how to make the best of things.
The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.
Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.
And despite everything I know now, I still believe, as I did when I was little, that there is an entire universe of things that my mother knows that I don't. I still believe that nothing truly bad can ever happen if my mother is around. I know it's not true. But still. It is true.
Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.
You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.
My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.
We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.
We are at our finest when we take care of each other.
Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.
Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.
The eyes see everything through the heart.
There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is where kisses come from. ' I had been thinking about it. Nursing had to be the place where nurturing and sweet milk and soft skin and mouths and warmth all came together and started to mean something about love. I had always assumed kissing was a learned thing, like waving bye-bye or speaking a language. But since Maxie, I'd decided that it was innate, the adult version of something we know to do from the moment we're born. All of it tied together in the cycle of life.
Success is doing the right thing for who you are.