She can kill with a smile She can wound with her eyes She can ruin your faith with her casual lies And she only reveals what she wants you to see She hides like a child But she’s always a woman to me – Billy Joel.

You have such a difficult time showing your heart,” she muses. “You think being strong is the only way to survive. You never know when to ask for help. You never have.

It’s an unwritten rule that best friends take care of each other, and best friends’ husbands understand.

Be careful what you wish for, people. You just might get it.

Maybe this is what she had meant – that the status of all things in my life would have to first get messy in order for them to get better.

James and I had eight years together, but in many ways we hadn’t even made it out of the gate, like a racehorse that gets spooked by the sound of the gun. So many things had held us back.

A true best friend loves you even when it seems like you’ve gone off the deep end.

Sometimes the truth has to hit us over the head before we can see it.

To realize you can love a person and not know them at all. To start to question everyone and everything in your life. What else do you not know? Who else is keeping things from you?

It’s ridiculous how your life doesn’t need your permission to turn upside down.