Our stories remind us how precious and fragile life can be-- and that we must risk our hearts everyday to know happiness.

How to Be an American Housewife is filled with dreams and love-the kinds that come true and those that don't. Margaret Dilloway is wise and ironic. She has created wonderful characters who never, in spite of hardships, stop finding ways to love each other.

The biggest mistake any of us can make is thinking that love is a feeling, an emotion. It's not that at all. It's an action.

Goodbyes were impossible, unless you didn't realize you were saying them.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing of all.

Missing pieces do more than complete the puzzle, they fill in an empty space.

One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.