If they just carried on like always, everything would be ok.

It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.

When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn't recognize...She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

Coffee, she'd discovered, was tied to all sorts of memories, different for each person. Sunday mornings, friendly get-togethers, a favorite grandfather long since gone, the AA meeting that saved their life. Coffee meant something to people. Most found their lives were miserable without it. Coffee was a lot like love that way. And because Rachel believed in love, she believed in coffee, too.

Some people don't know how to fall in love, like not knowing how to swim. They panic first when they jump in. Then they figure it out.