There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected.