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We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

Did you ever find yourself in a place in life where you had committed to something, and you couldn't make it work?

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

Tonight, I am a Perfect Girl, because I had a perfect night. And it ended with three perfect kisses. Three. What a lucky number.

The first stage of widowhood is paperwork.

Salad of baby spinach, artichoke hearts, and slices of fig, drizzled with olive oil and salt and a little fresh lemon juice,

Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

A dozen ... chocolate chip cookies ... a pot of coffee, and a good book are all I will need for the rainy weekend rolling in.

You take every salesman that walks into this shop at his word - why not Gianluca?

Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found a way to save herself.

The wise man leaves the past behind like a pair of boots he has outgrown.

We need the work. We'll do a

The world was noisy . As Ciro looked around, he was the only person who seemed to be listening.

But now I know that youth isn't waiting for you on the other side of wisdom.

But a child's joy is doubled for the mother, and the sound of her son's laughter began to her heart, a feat she had never believed possible

This is where men and women are different, we can put aside petty competition for relationships - they can't. It interferes.

And now I'm old. That bus is parked permanently. The battery is dead. And I can't remember where I put the jumper cables.

I love actors and I love to create an environment where they feel safe to connect and thrive and try things, to fail and succeed and flourish and fly.

If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.

none of us are good enough for Alfred,

Ciro carried himself like a general in full regalia, when in fact he wore secondhand clothes from the donation bin.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

The girl who built her life so carefully so she'd never have to ask anybody for anything. I have had it with me. Whoever I was!

I'm very organized - and the best thing - when you love your work, you don't mind putting in 15 hour days. It's joyful.

Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

The lane. I turn to Jack. What do you think?

Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.

A woman choses a man she thinks she deserves then sets out to change him to suit herself

Nationalism had now replaced neighborliness.

The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.

Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.

The best thing a father can do for his son is love his mother.

Grief doesn't hit and run; it stays. and sometimes for a very long time.

Nobody ever told me that motherhood was temporary. You think you have years and years with them, but the truth is, you don't.

Its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them

There was no comfort in happy memories; they just made it all seem worse.

The young have everything but wisdom.

I love rhinestones, faux jewelry.

If we're going to be friends, I want to be useful to you. You have to know what makes a person sad to figure out how to make them happy." "What

The distance between the haves and the have-nots is a train ride.

You just do your best, and life will follow.

He decided to cling to those things that were wonderful about her, and to ignore the ravages of time and insecurity, instability, and anxiety.

Sometimes things don't always go the way we want this side of Heaven

I only wish I had more of myself to give; somehow my heart does not seem big enough to hold what I feel for him.

Ciro took Enza's face in his hands. I have loved you all of my life. I was a boy who knew nothing, but when I met you, somehow I understood everything

If the yellow patent leather flats fit...

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

Life is a mystery to lived, not a problem to be solved.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved

My mother was an avid reader ... She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes ...

Beware the things of this world that can mean everything or nothing.

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

All you needed is what every girl needs, a good friend. Someone to talk to, to share with, to run things by ...

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

You're a drunk, and it's no wonder your husband stays in West Virginia.

I loved him more than he loved me, and that is a bad place for a woman to be.

In the last moments of his life Ciro realized that a truly good man is a rarity, a speck of gold in a mountain of slag.

If there is one thing I hope my books do always and forever, it's that they honor working people.

There isn't anything a parent won't do for her child. There is no limit on love.

Ciro pointed through the

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you
without you asking.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

The dance that I wasn't going to attend in about a jillion years just turned into a make-out session with random boys we have never met.

A man who can seduce with a turn of phrase will not disappoint in the bedroom.

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

Do Italians tell you everything they feel without censor?

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

He just likes to have fun, Papa."
"That's not a quality that gets you far in life.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

Moments are history. If you have enough of them, they become a story.

Food was celebration, conversation, and nourishment. The table is where the big decisions of the family are made and all the arguing takes place.

You must pray.'
'No, Sister.' Ciro smiled weakly. 'I'm not a good Catholic.'
'Well, Ciro, you're a good man, and that's more important.

If a man walks in beauty, he will create, and when he creates, he prospers.

The clock over the mantel in the beau parlor at the Milbank House ticked

Concetta is being duped. But you should never look down on someone for trusting the wrong person. It could happen to any of us.

There is a beehive under every pot of honey on the island of Manhattan,

A higher goal is always reached by overcoming fear.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

You kick a dog long enough, and eventually it will bite.

There is no worse feeling than being unable to assuage the suffering of the innocent.

He sank into the leather seat and held hope in his heart like a hundred stars.

I come from hardworking, determined people on both sides of my family ... the kind who live with a hard reality from which much strength comes.

I have decided that love is only real and true when it makes you feel safe.

Orphans have many parents.

He said a man should always have to work hard to win a woman's heart, because when he gets it, it's worth it, and he'll never take it for granted.

It seems that the people with passion never get the thing they're after.

Enza thought no place on earth could be colder than the Italian Alps, but now she knew she just had never been to Minnesota.

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

He's a good-looking sap, and he knows it. He's just exactly smart enough to know that he can only be important in a place where he has no competition.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.

Sometimes redemption lands in your life like a bird and looks you straight in the eye, even when you believe you don't deserve forgiveness.