Our friends have a way of reminding us of how fabulous we are when the rest of the world has forgotten.

Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn't last, it prepares you for the one that will.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Celebrate the people in your life who are there because they love you for no other reason than because you are you.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

If you're still waiting for it, it means you're not yet ready for it… whatever "it" is. So stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

—William Lyon Phelps

Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew.

—Alice Miller

There are people in our lives whom we love, and lose, and unfailingly long for. They orbit our hearts like Halley's Comet, crossing into our universe only once, or if we are lucky, twice in a lifetime.

—Jamie Ford in The World As We Know It

Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.

—Kim Harrison in and the Undead

Ah! Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle!

—Chuck Lorre, Steven Molaro and Eric Kaplan