Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing.

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are.

Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain she felt. Now she knew better. You carried your pain with you in life. There was no outrunning it.

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.

Popularity means people think they know you.

When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather.

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.