We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

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

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

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

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

I've always like the time before dawn because there's no one around to remind me who I'm supposed to be, so it's easier to remember who I am.

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.