Quotes from Barbara Delinsky

think of her innocence in

Entitled? That's a dangerous word, Greg. Be careful how you use it. People aren't entitled to things. They have to earn them. That goes for money and respect and love.

By six-twenty she'd begun to fear that he had been tied up longer than expected. The switchboard was off; he couldn't get through if he tried.

She hated rain. It came at the worst times, defied prediction, and made life messy.

So is it worse," Zoe asked, eyes haunted, "when someone who is all alone dies, or when someone dies and leaves family and friends? I don't know.

you'd think that after eighteen years—twenty-one years, if you count the three we were together

I was just about to call out to him when a woman followed him out of the townhouse. She was carrying a little boy. As I stood there watching, my father took the little boy from her and held him. He wrapped his other arm around the woman.

There are two reasons people change. One is if they've opened their minds, the other if their hearts have been broken.

other children had been immunized a

Doug's office was a Pandora's box that, once opened, gushed with condemning information. Emily was nearly as stunned by the ease of her access to it, as by its quantity. He hadn't camouflaged anything. It was all there for the taking. Apparently it hadn't occurred to the bastard that she would look.

Here in the garden, she found an unexpected peace.

Every memory is real, but not all are based on fact. Time, forgetfulness, emotional need—any of these things can chip away at memory.

She studied the airline's frequent flier statement, detailing dates and points of departure and arrival far different from what she had been led to believe. She found certificates of deposit and money market accounts. For the most part, she was dispassionate

listening to the stir of the trees, the chatter of birds as they flew in and out, the bubble of the fountain. This was an enchanted spot, justification in and of itself for the price of the townhouse. Casey might not know viburnum from vinca, but she knew that city gardens didn't get better than this.

He had given Sarah this robe three birthdays ago. It was one of the few gifts he had given her that she actually used. He

People don't cry because they're weak. They cry because they've been strong for too long.

Rain didn't make things messy. People did that all on their own.

There are always hurdles in life. Getting over them is how we move forward.

When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life. I'm tired of focusing on what we lost. I want to focus on what we had.

When you lose the most precious thing in your life, how do you go on? How do you not?

Just when you thought you'd reached a good place in life, a crisis could erupt and spill into the corners you thought most secure.

Anger was what came of hurt that had simmered too long.

The trouble with waking up in the morning is that you look like who you are. That's great if you like who you are – not so great if you don't.

What if the past won't stay packed away in a box with my name on it, just sitting there until I feel like taking if off the shelf and lifting the lid?