I thought about how one tiny decision can change a life. A decision that takes only a split second to make.

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

Love and marriage are wonderful arenas in which to place a character. We are most likely to risk our morals and beliefs while in love. Betrayal gives tremendous insights into a character as well.

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.