The frightened walk away when love is difficult. I know that now. You have to be willing to give everything away. You have to be willing to end up with nothing. Only then will your heart be whole.

My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.

In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

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

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled