When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five...but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child'slife, no matter how much you want to.

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.

When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

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