Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing.

Sometimes -- she knows this from her own life -- to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

...don't create snakes out of ropes. You have enough to worry about.

I walk out of the room, lurching under the weight of the lesson I've learned less than one hour into wifehood: How quickly the sweetest love turns rancid when it isn't returned. When the one you love loves someone else.

Your childhood hunger is the one that never leaves you.

Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.