It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs..

I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known..

That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when ….

He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhyt….

It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before….

A romance novel focuses exclusively on two people falling in love. It can't be about a woman caring for her aging mother or something like that. It c….

A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones..

It was true; always had been. Friendships were like marriages in that way. Routines and patterns were poured early and hardened like cement..

Before this trip and all that she'd learned about the three of them, she would have gotten angry or changed the subject. Anything to obscure the pain….

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

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives..

Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know..

This is the problem with forever friends. They know too much..

I didn't know how...deep love ran, how it was in your blood, not your heart, and how that same blood pumped through your veins your whole life..

It isn’t about being at the same school or the same town or even the same room. It’s about being together. Love is a choice you make..

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

To those who are here, those who are gone, and those who are lost..

She waited for you in a thousand different ways..

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you..

....both had learned that everything could change in an instant, and that the heartfelt vows of people in love were fragile words that, once shattere….

She'd been criticized for holding the reins of parenthood too tightly, of controlling her children too completely, but she didn't know how to let go.….