Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the open sea, almost from the first.

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.

Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or any of the other ritual roles of womanhood.

Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.