It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

Sadness is more or less like a head cold - with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far too interested in watching us, to see what in heaven's name we will do next.

Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back.

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.