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

Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

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.

Trying to follow in the footsteps of the masters, but it's a lot harder than it looks because even though they had the same size feet as us, they weren't looking down the whole time while they walked to make sure they were doing it right