We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell.

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

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those cars there is a story or a hundred stories. For every light on in al of those huge city buildings there is a story. No one knows what I am about to face and no one knows my story and neither do I right then.

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.