Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.