Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.

The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.