He’s not your typical prince, more like a square peg in a round hole, kind of like me. He’s the sort of guy who wouldn’t mind reading side by side on a date.

if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.

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.

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.