The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.

You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

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

I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.

Frankly, I wonder who Frank was, and why he has an adverb all to himself.