It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy,...
I looked at my friend, overwhelmed with confusion. Unsure of what April should do. What I should do. What a strong woman would do. In fact, the only thing that I am certain of is that there are no eas...
I feel freer with Dex than I ever did single, I feel more myself with him than without maybe true love does that.
I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.
I also appreciate Amy’s forty-something perspective that the thirties are a grind for many, and motherhood isn’t the constantly blissful journey everyone thinks it will be when they attend their pink...
He was a symbol of independence and possibility. The ultimate fantasy.
First of all, it’s impossible not to compare. When you go down a fork in a road, it’s impossible not to think about that other path. Wonder what your life could have been like…
Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.
But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.
And then realize it’s not Peter I miss, but the idea of what I once thought we shared.
You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end, You'll have no time for grievin'.
When you wanted to savor something, it would speed by in a blur. When you wanted to get past something, it would drag on forever. Elaine
We all agree that there is no bright-line litmus test for what works in marriage, or what happiness looks like. That it all comes down to the two people inside the relationship.
Time heals all wounds, particularly if you pack a bunch of stuff into that time.
The feeling of leaving, even when you don’t want to. The feeling that sometimes things just can’t be fixed.
That is one of the problems with getting older. There is a distinct lag time between how you see others and how you view yourself. I still thought of myself as looking twenty-four.
People who like surprises want you to like surprises, too.
Nothing is ever perfect, my mom says. It is what you make of it.
My little girls are all grown-up. I remember when the three of you were in diapers, running around at the pool with your little orange water wings. And now look at you, my mom says, so nostalgic that...
Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.