The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it

If you're right & I'm not, I'm going to be hell to live with, she said. So, you better think about that next time you want to be right.

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

My grandma used to plant tomato seedlings in tin cans from tomato sauce & puree & crushed tomatoes she got from the Italian restaurant by her house, but she always soaked the labels off first. I don't want them to be anxious about the future, she said. It's not healthy.

There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.