Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.

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.

When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres; the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.

She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse.

I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.