Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.

One thing about failing repeatedly: If you're still doing it after you've failed that much, you really mean it.

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again; it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: "booze affects material as it does people.

Every day a question mark.