I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

Reason number 106 why dogs are smarter than humans: once you leave the litter, you server contact with your mothers.

I woke up one morning thinking about wolves and realized that wolf packs function as families. Everyone has a role, and if you act within the parameters of your role, the whole pack succeeds, and when that falls apart, so does the pack.

An item that looks perfectly normal on the surface might only be disguised.

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.

Raw love, like raw heartache, could blindside you.