“Somehow you drift along on the river, and one dayyou wake up and you’re someplace you don’t want tobe, with someone you realize you don’t know.”

“When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready.”

“You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.”

“Feelings aren’t sensible.always,” her mother said gently. “Feelings aren’t sensible.Sometimes you fall in love with people who don’t makesense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to bethe wrong ones”

“.. All you know is your parents telling you that you're not deserving, you're not worthy, and no one will ever want you. Believe me, tapes like that play so loud, you can't hear anything else. Even when it's clear otherwise.”

“She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.”

“You can have anything you want, if you go out and get it. If you claim it as your own. You have a right to it.”