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.

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

Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.

Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.

Some feelings are stronger than fear: love, longing, desire.

happy endings start with new beginnings.