Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up.

They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.

Tibby, on the other hand, had spent hundreds and hundreds of hours with Brian striving for the comfort of not knowing.

Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.

[Carmen] knew a worse friend would have made her feel better.

sometimes you need to make a mess.

It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

God always fills in all hearts all the room which is left Him there.

Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.

I doubt that Fidel will ever come back to power. I think he is slowly going to the great beyond. Too slowly . . . he could have gone a long time ago.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

I'm obsessed with Tumblr. I love looking at all the pictures!

Bigger budget features are the juice. Delicious juice you want to spill all over yourself.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.