The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

It is a lie that people who love each other must know everything about each other. Love must occasionally allow for a gap.

I let myself feel good and sorry for myself, but only for a second. Daddy always said that the most useless of all human emotions was self-pity.

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?

if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

Oh," says Owen, "but I would have, you know." "I know you would have," says Liz, "and knowing you would have is nearly as good.