There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

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

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.

You're the strangest person I ever met, she said & I said you too & we decided we'd know each other a long time.

I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.

When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.