In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

Almost everybody embraces life.

I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

You wouldn't know I was sick unless you knew I was sick.

To be perfectly frank, there is an odd place after losing a child, where you think somehow your life is worth less.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.