Blood may be thicker than water, but friendship is thicker than both.

She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

Tibby's wish would be to hold on to the idea of love even in the face of darkest doubt. Because that was the way in which she failed. Not once, but again and again.

The phone was her worst enemy and her best friend but she never knew which until she answered it.

They were here all at once, but not together. Survival took self-absorption, and it made them strangers with nothing to do and no way to relate. Emergencies gave you a shape and a plot to take part in, while death was no story at all. It left you nothing.

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris