I would make an anonymous call and say, this is someone who cares, do you know what kind of children you have?

I like to listen to sad music when I’m sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.

You are born into your family and your family is born into you. No returns. No exchanges.

As far as I'm concerned, the most important thing you need when inventing characters is empathy.

In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.

There is incredible value in being of service to others.