My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.
Dani ShapiroWe can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache. In fact, to love - fully, madly, deeply - is the ensure heartache some day.
Dani ShapiroMy son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.
Dani Shapiro