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 require the planning, for example, that it takes to become a wife or a mother or… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
“It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no one could… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“You have that syndrome that chronically sick kids get, like overdeveloped conscience syndrome," she announced. "You made that up." Juliet laughed. "I did. You have it though. You always feel like you're inconveniencing somebody." "I am always inconveniencing somebody. I'm an inconvenient person." "But you're not. We didn't ask to be born this way, Allie. The world owes you one.… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
“It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce.” — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
It's faith that really takes the courage, the belief in things unseen. — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about. — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
Nothing better for the hormones and worse for the heart than the right boy at the right time. — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
