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“She seemed to be reminding me of what we’d discussed many times, Everyone has something. This is yours. Each life has a defining crisis.”
― Belle Burden, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

“We had all been taught to fill in the hole that men left, to be quiet about men behaving badly, to move on with grace.”
― Belle Burden, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

“Life doesn't work that way, Alina. Hatred spreads - it doesn't burn out with time. Someone needs to stand up and stop it.”
― Kelly Rimmer, The Things We Cannot Say

“The way to turn an ex-lover into a friend is to never stop loving them, to know that when one phase of a relationship ends it can transform into something else. It is to acknowledge that love is both a constant and a variable at the same time.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow