Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.

Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.

In my experience, staying in a marriage that my ex and I both agreed had all its best moments behind it was epically depressing.

I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.