In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.

you'd do anything to get a soul mate back, right?… I mean, that's the nature of soul mates.

It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

[The] maid of honor - the unambiguous, grown-up equivalent of wearing best friend necklaces.

And then there is Darcy. She is a woman who believes that things should fall into her lap, and, consequently, they do. They always have. She wins because she expects to win. I do not expect what I want, so I dont. And I dont even try.

I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person.

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.