“AMELIA: Thank you to everyone for keeping up with me while I run for the finish line.”

“AMELIA: Thank you for sticking it out with me no matter how crazy I get, because thats what friends do. Weve been through a lot together, so heres to more shenanigans, and characters bickering!”

“AMELIA: To my friends, and family: You all may be batsh*t crazy, but even if I got to choose, Id still choose to be with you. Life is fragile, and tomorrow is never a sure thing, so thanks for shar...”

“AMELIA: To my daughter, if you ever date anyone like the men I write, I will kick your *ss up between your ears and you will walk sideways for a month, but Ill still love you.”

“I want my world to start and end with you.”

“You know how you have a good meal and you got gravy left on the plate. The gravy was so good that you dont want to leave it on the plate but you dont want to be a pig about it? So you take your bre...”

“She rubbed her cheek on his chest like a sleepy cat. I like when you hold me.Dios, she was going to break his heart. I like when I hold you too.”

“Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight mu...”

“When you look into your mothers eyes, you know that is the purest love you can find on this earth.”

“? Life is all about relationships and what actually happens when people relate, when people understand each other. To see each other for who they are, not what we want or expect of them. Margaret B...”

“Mothers Day is coming up soon. If youre lucky enough to still have your mother, tell her youre grateful to her [] at some point, we must forgive each other for being flawed human beings. Many of us...”

“There is not enough air in the room for Marianne and Elizabeth to share. They have learned this the hard way, but acceptance of the fact has made life easier. Now they see each other twice a year, ...”

“Mom was the midwife who delivered stories to me.”