Biography
"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."
"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 is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together."
"Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them."
"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."
"I think of how each person in a marriage owes it to the other to find individual happiness, even in a shared life. That this is the only way to grow together, instead of apart."
"People generally didn't cheat in good relationships."
"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."
"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 matter of faith."
"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 glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated."
"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 was, I am happy to be wrong about that."
"You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel."(Something Borrowed)"
"I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors."
"Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now."
"I spend the rest of the afternoon trying to explain to Zoe one of the very saddest notions in love and life: sometimes the timing is wrong--and sometimes you realize the heart of the matter way to late in the game."
"I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient."
"It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!"
"Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!"
"You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel." (Something Borrowed)"
"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."
"I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake."
"His loyalty, so fierce and unwavering, makes my eyes water and heart ache."
"desperately wanting to define what's in the air between us but unwilling to make the first move"
"We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo"