I remove my wedding rings and put them in the jewelry box. So many others have done this. I am not the only one. I am not the only one. But here, I am the only one.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.

Sometimes you know before you know.