My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

Isn't this the truth of any good mother? That in all of our lives. We worry only about those we brought into this world, regardless of whether they loved us back or treated us fairly or understood our shortcomings.

I have been a joy to live with all spring: Upbeat, warm and tender, uncomplicated, and loving. I am no trouble at all. You could press me into dough and make sugar cookies out of me, I've been so sweet.