I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate

The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost.

That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.