Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?

- Claire Cook

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

- Claire Cook

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

- Claire Cook

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

- Claire Cook

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

- Claire Cook

Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinki…

- Claire Cook

Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal .

- Claire Cook

I was a lot braver when I was eight.

- Claire Cook

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

- Claire Cook