Remember, you can lead a fifty-seven-year-old body to motherhood, but you can't make it stay awake.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.

A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.

Why take pride in cooking, when they don't take pride in eating?

No baby shall at any time be quartered in a house where there are no soft laps, no laughter, or no love.

If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures... but he was never in them.