Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

...but now the worst crime was pretending to be something you were not.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out where we stood.