It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so…

Here is how it is for women. We become our schedules. That starts to feel good. Then it starts to feel necessary. Then it…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

Being wanted is the tender heel of everything human.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

Feelings change fast when you're a teenager.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

“You have that syndrome that chronically sick kids get, like overdeveloped conscience syndrome," she announced. "You made that up." Juliet laughed. "I did. You…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

When someone you love that much leaves you behind there isn't as much of you left to die when your own time comes.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

“It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce.”

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

our sons and daughters are only passing through. ... If we are lucky, they always will consider our home their harbor, but they are…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

The ideal structure for a family is one that remains so.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

Anybody can become a widow. There aren't any special qualifications. It happens in less time than it takes to draw a breath. It doesn't…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

“Already there was black rain inside me.”

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard