Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going on.

Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult.

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

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of protest. Another housewife lost in the flow.

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.