Quotes from Nancy Thayer

Chopin étude. At first, she rushed, hit the wrong keys, could not get the rhythm right, but she continued, and as the music unwound like a silken rope from a magic skein, she entered that kingdom that art created, between reality and the possibility of other realities, between harsh life and shining beauty, between death and the possibility of eternity, that radiant realm that nourished her soul and made her understand why she lived.

It hurts my heart, too, sweetie, but you know what? Sometimes crying is a kind of cure. Sometimes that's what the body and the heart need to do. It's hard to watch, but it's not always a bad thing.

the morning after Haley's party and

Real life was like a plot by Dickens . . .

happiness is the best medicine.

If I've gotta go down, I'm gonna go down in style.

Fabulous Aunt Fancy had died on her sixtieth birthday while parachuting from an airplane.

question. "I don't know. I like Boston. And I like being close to my mom." "And your sisters." Arden hesitated. This was officially a first date

what was her life about? Did she mean nothing?

Photos of the interior displayed a warren of rooms as worn and welcoming as a fairy-tale grandmother's lap, and as rumpled.

How odd it was, Eleanor thought, to have grown children who've become people you don't really know.

I need magic. I want spells and incantations. I want someone to help me. I can't do this by myself. This is how a criminal feels when she has pleaded guilty and stands all alone, when the judgment has been given and the gavel dropped down. This is how she feels, full of self-loathing and a smothering terror, unable to breathe, choking on her very life.

He's kinda like a yellow lab guy, you know? Likeable, friendly, gets his feelings hurt easily.

But I kind of think people marry the wrong people to get the right children.

Geeks Do It with More Ram.

Trevor Black was relaxed, easy in his body, present but not pressing. Zack always came on strong—the blazing smile, the hearty greeting. Trevor's hand was a bridge, not a rope to jerk her into Zack's realm. She lightly touched his palm, and her heart leapt in her chest. Oh, good. She was physically attracted to some random young guy right in front of her children. Nice.

Perhaps every family is odd.

Dear Algebra, stop asking me to find your X. She's never coming back and don't ask Y.

Are there any "ordinary" women? I don't think so.

AutoCorrect can go duck itself.

so you won't see anything spectacular for a while. There's mostly farmland

He put his hands

This sister thing, Marina thought, is as complicated and incomprehensible as particle physics.

free-floating anxiety," suddenly hit by an anxiety attack brought on by the world news or a friend's accident or simply by living in this curious world.