In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

There had been so many easy words between them that Daniel was guilty of nodding every now and then and tuning out the excess. He hadn't known, at the time, that he should have been hoarding these, like bits of sea glass hidden in the pocket of a winter coat to remind him that once it had been summer.

People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.