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.

You're dying with the way things are," Della Lee said harshly, causing Josey to lower the handful of popcorn she was about to put in her mouth. "You're going to lose yourself in this, Josey. It's going to happen if you don't change. I know. I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over.

Safe is just another word for scared.

Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

There was a certain power beautiful mothers held over their less beautiful daughters.