“Ours was a common and unsung friendship, that between women living in New York, single and alone, a...

“I tossed out one last question: ‘Have you ever been in love?’ No one, he said, had ever asked him t...

“My personal life was another story. In love there’s no hiding: You have to let someone know who you...

“We rallied, not with the adrenaline-pumping determination to win at all costs, but with the patienc...

“There is never a good time to fall off your couch onto a martini glass and begin losing a dangerous...

“He was very handsome. He wore gray turtleneck sweaters and smelled like mint aftershave and old boo...

“There was no guarantee that doing an open adoption would get us a baby any faster… in fact, our age...

“Old love is different. In our 70s and 80s, we had been through enough of life’s ups and downs to kn...

"Driving, with the top down, I’m reminded that I too can shift gears, face risk, handle inconvenienc...

"I'm a vampire, basically — going to bed around 8 or 9 a.m. and waking around 4 or 5 p.m. First date...

"We met on a train. A perfect, flirtatious, six hours. The beginning of our love story? Trusting in...

"He was everything a 10-year-old girl could ever hope for in a man. It was decided; I was in love. I...

"In retrospect, maybe I should have known who I was the first time I went looking for a quiz called...

"A few months later, I was in the psychologist’s reception room, paying for my fourth really good cr...

"I don’t remember his last name. He was handsome, with a nice smile and startlingly blue eyes. The s...

"On this night, long after we had thrown in the towel on us, here we were again, crawling back into...