Laughing has always seemed to me to be more Jewish than praying.
You can run but you can't hide
You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
. . . love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.
I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super-busy. Obviously you know what they're doing, and you trust them. We're so young that it would almost be like if we lived in the same city, what would happen? We'd be living together. At least this way he's in the same boat as I am: We can go out and have our own lives and know that we have each other.
Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the rooms.
There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.