Danger came in different packages, at different points in a lifetime.

Cool and nonchalant, like none of this mattered anyway. Is that what guys really wanted? Or was it just what the girls thought the guys wanted

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood – finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

In reality, you don't ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.

People don't just disappear. There's always a reason, or an enemy with a grudge. There's always a loose thread that starts to unravel.

I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.

Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I've gone away.

You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that the're not.