The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

He'd learned long ago: perfection isn't what families are all about.

I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.

As an author, I get paid to break my own heart on a regular basis.

Hope can get you through anything.

The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.

But choosing to lovingly care for her was like steering a plane into a mountain as gently as possible. The crash is imminent; it's how you spend your time on the way down that counts.