Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there.

Katie is like my calendar, watching her grow and change. She is growing up so fast, learning to have opinions of her own, learning that I don’t have the answers to everything. And the moment a child begins to understand that, you know you’re in trouble.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

people who say its a long story, mean it's a stupid short one that they are too embarrassed and couldn't be bothered to tell

Nothing is never nothing. It's always something.

Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.