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.….

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last..

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?.

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….

Popularity means people think they know you..

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endin….

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 ….

Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elemen….

What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?.

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..

The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, re….

....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….

We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will….

It’s a promise ring,” he said solemnly. “The lady at the store said it’s what you give the girl you love. It means I want to marry you someday..

And before you barrel through some idiotic Cosmo girl list of how-well-do-you-know-your-man questions, let me say that I don't know squat about him e….

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

Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist..

Stacey: "I'm surprised you haven't thrown me out." Comfort: "At your current weight, I'd need some sort of catapult..

You will always miss her. There will be days - even years from now - when the missing will be so sharp it will take your breath away. But there will ….

Hands down, the hardest part for me is coming up with an idea. I spend about 14 months writing a book, and that's a lot of hours spent thinking about….

Nobody's strong enough to be a parent. We just do it, blindly, going forward on faith and love and hope. That's all it is...Being afraid...and going ….