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.

You're not traveling if you already know everything.

Adults need to have fun so children will want to grow up.

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.

Sometimes, niña, our greatest gifts grow from what we are not given.

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

She said, 'You can be broken, or broken open. That choice is yours.'