It’s good to be the sunshine, but sometimes it’s all right to be the rain, too. A good, balanced life needs both.

Audrey had never understood why mean words sounded louder than kind ones.

It was that or cancel it. And I can’t believe I just told you that.” Audrey shrugged. “Friends and family all have opinions and feel they have to fix things, and sometimes all you want is someone to listen.

Bad choices are part of life, aren’t they? Doesn’t mean your next choice can’t be a good one.

People can make it hard for you, they can discourage and take the heart out of you, but in the end the only person who can kill your dream is you. Don’t ever give up.

A book can give you most things a relationship can. It can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can transport you to different worlds and teach you things. You can even take it out to dinner. And if it bores you, you can move on.

I don’t have a hot date. I don’t even have a lukewarm date.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.” – Charlotte.

Up!” Mimi said sharply. “Lying there howling never gives you anything but a headache, and the only good reason to get a headache is because you’ve drunk too much champagne.

She’d read somewhere that if you gave your brain tasks to do it stopped overthinking. She’d given herself a lot of tasks. Sometimes she felt like a robot. It seemed like a lifetime since she’d felt human.