Quotes from Claire Cook

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention.

What do I want? What kind of question is that? I want what everybody wants. I want someone who has my back. I want someone's name to put in the space after in an emergecy please call. I want someone who will drink the other half of the bottle of wine so I don't. And someone to make it worth sitting down at an actual table to eat. I want someone who's dying to get home after a long day because I'm going to be there.

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one.

Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?

It takes courage to create,' he said. 'People are afraid of embarrassing themselves by not being good enough.' Or maybe even by showing who they really are.

Your problem, my darling daughter, is that you're afraid you're going to miss something. But what you don't realize is that, by not making a decision, you're missing it all.

Because I know what it's like to pour your heart and soul into a book, day after day after day, when it comes to the work of other authors, I either give them five stars -- or say nothing! I simply can't bring myself to do anything else.

You can try to avoid getting hurt six ways from Sunday, but it still might happen.

Because nobody knows you better than somebody who knew you way back then.

Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.

Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter.

Once you got started, all you had to do was keep placing one foot in front of the other, no matter how happy or sad you were. I'd taken that first step because I'd wanted to look better. I'd wanted my clothes to fit. But it hadn't taken me long to figure out that the biggest benefit was less about vanity than it was about sanity. Walking always helped.

The world would be a better place if everyone just helped one another out when they needed it, in my opinion.

I was a lot braver when I was eight.

Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

It's easy to look like Santa Claus when you don't have to buy the groceries.

Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world.

Maybe part of finding what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

even reflected glory can be intoxicating.

I had a system, too, though I was pretty sure I'd ever acknowledged it before, even to myself. My closet was arranged by size: Now, Not That Long Ago, Once Upon a Time, Never Again, and In Your Dreams. I didn't even have to check the tags to verify the humiliating range of ever-increasing numerals displayed on them. I wondered what size I'd be when I'd finally had enough.