So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.

And the worst thing she had heard were the words he hadn't said, the fact that he hadn't loved her.

You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

Somebody once said to me that photography and writing don't get respect because people think that they can do it, too.

...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.