But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.

People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets. Thirteen-year-old girls on magazine covers who wind up in hospitals because they're so anorexic. Real women don't look like that. And who wants them to? No one wants a woman who looks sick or like she;s been from a refugee camp.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.