Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better.

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.

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.

It occurred to her suddenly, sharply, that she wanted to be in love... She wanted not to feel so damned alone in the world.

It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make.

I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

I have often wished in the past few years that my mom were here to help me as I raised my own teenage son. As a girl, with my own mom, I thought I knew it all; now I know better. Somewhere, I know my mom is smiling.