“Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.”

“We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.”

“One thing I've learned is that strange things do happen. They happen all the time. Today, for instance, my best friend Jill's cat spoke. We were making brownies in the kitchen when we heard it say, 'Let me out.”

“He'd already realized that he could not begin to understand the things men did; now he saw women were even harder to figure out. Sometimes it almost seemed as if they were thinking one thing and talking about something else completely, and you didn't know what to believe: the thing they said or the thing they didn't.”

“You can only know a friend so well after all. When you come right down to it, even your best friend is a puzzle.”

“This kind of knowing you can never tell to anyone. If you want us to survive, you cannot trust a soul'... 'Not for any reason on this earth. You can never tell,”

“Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?”