The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.

You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the challenge and the fun for a writer.

I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.

I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.

A long time ago I learned not to explain things to people. It misleads them into thinking they're entitled to know everything I do. -Sara

Darlin'...I know what you look like when you've been kissed.

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.