If you live in your senses, slowly, with attention, if you use your eyes and your fingertips and your taste buds, then romance is something you’ll never need a greeting card to make you remember.

The women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

A risk is a risk because it's avoidable.

Life is beautiful. Some people just remind you of that more than others.

Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.

TIME WENT ON, life with the children unfolding in its own ecosystem, small plastic toys seeming to grow up from the carpet like mushrooms, clothes falling to the floor like autumn leaves. Every once in a while she would blaze through the house and clean everything-at which point, the process would start all over.

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else.