When I'm with you, I feel a kind of calm I've never felt in my life. I'm tangled up in you and you're tangled up in me and it feels right. Like it was meant to be.

I used to think that any man of mine had to live up to a list of my expectations. I was wrong. Love has no list.

—Rachel Gibson in Any Man of Mine

I thought if I quit looking around for you, I would forget you. I thought if I avoided you, I could get you out of my head. But it didn't work.

—Rachel Gibson in See Jane Score

I feel like I should probably ask you to leave. But I don't really want you to go. I want you to stay, but I know you shouldn't.

—Rachel Gibson in True Confessions

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.

—Rachel Gibson in True Confessions

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.

—Mason Cooley

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

—Antonio Porchia

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

—Natalie Goldberg

Calmness is the cradle of power.

—Josiah Gilbert Holland