Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

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

Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can’t see how special you are, he isn’t good enough for you.

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing.

We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.

And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him except that he kisses like a god and screws like a devil.

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.