Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free..

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

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

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….

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….

Sometimes being a good friend means saying nothing..

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. ….

When you're a mom, you learn about fear. You're always afraid. Always. About everything from cupboard doors to kidnappers to weather..

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..

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..

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

I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kind….

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

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

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life..

You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about a….

I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing..

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….

Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away..

Books + friendship = book club.

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