Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.

Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah,I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.

at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

She didn't feel thirty. But then again again, what was being thirty supposed to feel like? When she was younger, thirty seemed so far away, she thought that a woman of that age would be so wise and knowledgeable, so settled in her life with a husband and children and a career. She had none of those things. She still felt as clueless as she had felt when she was twenty, only with a few more gray hairs and crow's feet around her eyes.

I always want my books to reach a positive point in the end.