Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

You build your world around someone, and then what happens when he disappears? Where do you go-into pieces, into atoms, into the arms of another man? You go shopping, you cook dinner, you work odd hours, you make love to someone else on June nights. But you're not really there.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.