Sometimes you’re loved because of your weaknesses. What you can’t do is sometimes more compelling than what you can.

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression my father had after he'd watched my first tennis lesson. "Sweetie," she said, "that's what a lot of life is.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.