Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

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

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.