I don't think anything is the opposite of love.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

Good writing is about telling the truth.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.