Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.

Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.

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

You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

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.