What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

Me, I was already jaded and tarnished, skeptical that a fantasy world could keep reality at bay.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

That's what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.

I think there are crossroads in our lives when we make grand, sweeping decisions without even realizing it.

the letters are mixed up. U and I should be together.