Jacquelyn Mitchard

“It was like a lucky pebble kept in my pocket that got so shined up from rubbing against the denim that no…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.…

— 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…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

Work is a slice of your life. It's not the entire pizza.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

I do a great deal of research. I don’t want anyone to say, ‘That could not have happened.’ It may be fiction,…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

“They talk about everything that happened right in front of me like I’m not there. They don’t see me. When you don’t…

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.

— Jacquelyn Mitchard

“I loved the terrier quality Stuart had. He thought he was such a tough guy.”

— Jacquelyn Mitchard