When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over.

Safe is just another word for scared.

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

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

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.

We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will?

Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.