I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction, but it has to be true.

- Jacquelyn Mitchard

There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which y…

- Jacquelyn Mitchard

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

- Jacquelyn Mitchard

Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

- Jacquelyn Mitchard

Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

- Jacquelyn Mitchard

You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

- Jacquelyn Mitchard

Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

- Jacquelyn Mitchard

our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are headed out to the…

- Jacquelyn Mitchard

Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't require the p…

- Jacquelyn Mitchard