I am not alone. I am surrounded by words that tell me who I am, why I feel what I feel. - Anna Quindlen

As I looked at [my future husband] I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.