When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.

She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.

Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.