But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart.

But I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

There is no better audience for someone in love than someone in love.

I think the most well-adjusted people live in the present with an eye toward the future - I'm not among those.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.