Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.

One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone …and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.

Whereas I will be with a wicked, handsome Rom who will keep me warm all night.

I think at this point, safety isn't a feeling, it's a process. Starting with trust.

If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

It was a train wreck happening right in front of me and I couldn't do anything about it, except that not only was I watching, I was also the train.