If only…the saddest words in the English language.

- Kristan Higgins

Maybe love isn't just a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when you're tired.

- Kristan Higgins

Don't ever marry a man who loves his work more than he loves you.

- Kristan Higgins

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

- Kristan Higgins

Stop smiling. Every time you smile, an angel dies.

- Kristan Higgins

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

- Kristan Higgins

I'll tell you something, Harpy," he said, his voice almost a whisper now. "It never even occurred to me that we wouldn't make it. And it never occurr…

- Kristan Higgins

She smiled, and there it was again, that aching pressure in his chest. Love, or a heart attack. Kind of the same thing.

- Kristan Higgins

But they're family, and you forgive them, even if they are human equivalent of hyenas. Because that's what you do, Posey. Forgive.

- Kristan Higgins