95 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“People generally didn't cheat in good relationships.”
“What if two people want to be your partner, then what?”
“But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.”
“Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past”
“and more important, did he love me as much as he once loved me?”
“I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.”
“We are one of those couples i used to watch, thinking to myself that I'd never be on the inside of something so special. I remember reassuring myself that it probably looked nicer than it actually ...”
“...love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.”
“I miss us too. I always have and I probably always will. Sometimes there are no happy endings. No matter what, I'll be losing something, someone. But maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, n...”
“I love him wholly and unconditionally and without reservation. I love him enough to sacrifice a friendship. I love him enough to accept my own happiness and use it, in turn, to make him happy back.”
“But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.”
“Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.”
“Life's not black-and-white. Sometimes the ends justifies the means.”
“His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the ...”
“What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it. And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever.”
“You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)”
“I nod, thinking of how difficult marriage can be, how much effort is required to sustain a feeling between two people - a feeling that you can't imagine will ever fade in the beginning when everyth...”
“I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I...”
“And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.”
“As everyone applauds and sips champagne, I smile back at Rachel, thinking she got it just right. Love and friendship. They are what makes us who we are and what can change us, if we let them.”
“It occurs to me that she is not unique--that all women compare lives. We are aware of whose husband works more, who helps more around the house, who makes more money, who is having more sex. We com...”
“I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a m...”
“My work has often been described as chick lit and for the most part the term doesnt bother me. I think it simply signals to readers that the book is about women, written for women (although many me...”
“Why do I need to have reasons? When someone decides to have a baby, people don't go around asking what her reasons are.”
“The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before.”
