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.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

The best way to prevent a heartache was to cushion the coming blow.

I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?