You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.

Every couple has two stories - the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version best left alone.

I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.

You can run but you can't hide

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.

I think the issue of female friendship really resonates well with women, ... So many women have a friend like Darcy or can relate to the feeling of being second-fiddle to a friend.

But now I can see that there is redemption and beauty in an accident emanating from love.