This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much.

Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

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 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.

You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten.

but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.