“The question was whether James would love me if I was someone else.”

“What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.”

“Tombstones dont list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.”

“Tombstones don´t list jobs, they list relationships-mother, wife, daughter.”

“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume tha...”

“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”

“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that prec...”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”