Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

Perhaps nothing was ever “meant to be.” There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit “bendy.

She longed to feel something momentous. Sometimes her life seemed so little.

Falling in love was easy.anyone could fall. It was holding on that was tricky

Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.

She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.