When I was little, the great mystery to me was not how babies were made, but why?

You couldn't have strength without weakness, you couldn't have light without dark, you couldn't have love without loss

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.