Fate was a grim reaper, never kind, with little respect for who was loved and needed... and grief, no matter on how your try to cater to is wail, has a way of fading away, and the person so real so beloved becomes a dim slightly out of focus shadow.

I think of Marv. My dad. And I realize I don't feel lonely. In this moment, the empty loneliness that has always followed me around like a chasm, ready to eat me whole, is simply not there. I feel loved.

I was tired of being a smiling size-two who never broke curfew and was described by all her teachers as 'quiet, serious, a dream come true.' Mostly, I felt small everyday and blamed the city, thought maybe if I went somewhere unlike anywhere I knew I could be fixed and new and like I'd always wanted to be.

A very adorable book about a family grieving the loss of a young family member. We follow these women having a hard time coming to terms with their loss but do while finding themselves in the process. I enjoyed this book very much.

Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then. You just have to carry them with you.

But I know that as humans we want to be heard, and so when someone does the hearing, we feel a connection to them.

And when I realized you had secrets too,I was glad.I thought we could be honest with each other.That we could finally rid ourselves of all the clutter from our past. Not our possessions,but the stuff we carry around inside our heads.Because that's what I've realized.You can make your surroundings as polished and empty as you like. But it doesn't really matter if you're still messed up inside. And that's all anyone's looking for really, isn't it?

Good book. Looking back thinking about the adults around me who worked so hard to give each generation better than they had. Really made me stop and think how far my family has come and what I have done to help break the cycle.

I was happy, I think, but I wonder now if my memory is playing tricks on me. If it is giving me the gift of an illusion. We all layer them over our remembrances; the filters through which we want to see our lives.

I think you need to start thinking less about what you owe other people and more about what you owe yourself.

A good quick read. Overall its a sad book that does truly describes abuse in families but ends in a happy tone with two people who fall in love like any romance book does. Yeah the characters are a little too good to be true but its a romance book what more can you expect.

I have never understood how people can blithely disregard the damage they do by following their hearts.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here. I don't usually feel that I am.

It's strange, but you never stop caring about someone, even if you don't want to be with them anymore.

Great one day (all day) read! I couldn't put it down! Catty moms, entitled parents, with the kids caught in the middle. Its something that could/had happened in everyday life. Both the book and the show have interesting endings. I can see why the show was different. Of course they needed a twist for a season two! I enjoyed both endings!

Life isn't easy for anyone. We all have challenges. We all face adversity. It's how we overcome it that makes us who we are.

A book, morning coffee, and my husband snoring next to me; what a beautiful start to my day!

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

From that point on, I guess I sort of realized that my imagination, which made life tolerable, needed to be kept a secret from the rest of the world. But if you keep something hidden away, all tied up, it‘s hard to summon it when you really need it.