The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

A woman knows she can walk away from a pot to tend something else and the pot will go on boiling; if she couldn't this world would end at once.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

If you can't dress expensive, dress memorable.

You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on.

In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.