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….

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

Marriages go through hard times. Sometimes you have to get in there and fight for your love. That's the only way for it to get better..

Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason..

Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped do….

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

If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are..

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….

She had been ready to love this man from the moment she first saw him. In all these years, that had never changed. They'd hurt each other, let each o….

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

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

She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt..

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waitin….

Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice..

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way..

Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free..

I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship]..

To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you ju….

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

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. ….

He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination..