She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt befor….

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

If she wasn't careful, she'd slide without a ripple into the gently flowing stream of her old life, pulled back under the current without a wimper of….

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 ….

Whenever I write about motherhood - and I write about it a lot - I am drawing on my experiences as a mother and also my experiences as a daughter..

At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't:….

Their friendship was more important than any relationship. Guys would come and go; girlfriends were forever..

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

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts o….

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

And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but t….

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

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

And no one drank just one shot of tequila..

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. ….

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

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

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..

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

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

She waited for you in a thousand different ways..