Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.

You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.

Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.