Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

I have the most devoted and loyal following. I could probably type up my grocery list and they'd all want to read it. I love that they're willing to let me go wherever I need to go as an author, and they're happy to come along for the ride as the reader.

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who loses a child.

Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.