There are always times in life that you don't fit in. But you have to go forward and make a place for yourself. That's what growing up is all about. ….

Finding your passion isn't just about careers and money. It's about finding your authentic self. The one you've buried beneath other people's needs..

No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and….

In the sea of grief, there were islands of grace, moments in time when one could remember what was left rather than all that had been lost..

As mothers and daughters, we are connected with one another. My mother is the bones of my spine, keeping me straight and true. She is my blood, makin….

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said..

Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten..

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to..

The falling apart of a man's life should make more noise. It should startle passesrby with its Sturm and Drang. It ought to sound like the Parthenon ….

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories..

Oh, Mia. You haven’t even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can’t see ho….

Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing. -Kate.

To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering i….

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob..

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future..

What I know now about life is this: your mother is a part of everything you do and everything you are..

And no one drank just one shot of tequila..

but sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how ….

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you..

Liam learned that it was possible to appear to move forward when you were really standing still..

Jude remembered this pain. Every woman had felt some version of it: the end of first love. It was when you learned, for good and always, that love co….