(P)eople’s good intentions can wind up putting us in boxes as confining as coffins.

A day might just be twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

There’s a difference between losing something you knew you had and losing something you discovered you had. One is a disappointment. The other feels like losing a piece of yourself.

Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

No one is who they pretend to be

You talked to me, but you didn’t. I could see you having these two-sided conversations. The things you wanted to say to me. And the words that actually came out.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.