No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows of bare limbs making for sidewalk filigrees. Roses past their prime with their petals loose about them. The shouts of children at play in the neighborhood, Ginger Rogers on the black-and-white screen.

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

I have wanted you to see out of my eyes so many times.

I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.