It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.

It turned out this man worked for the Dalai Lama. And she said gently-that they believe when a lot of things start going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born-and that this something needs for you to be distracted so that it can be born as perfectly as possible.

My heart was broken and my head was just barely inhabitable

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.

Laughter is carbonated holiness.

Grief, as I read somewhere once, is a lazy Susan. One day it is heavy and underwater, and the next day it spins and stops at loud and rageful, and the next day at wounded keening, and the next day numbness, silence.

I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.