What if two people want to be your partner, then what?

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.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.

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

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.