What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

Does fate ever play by the rules?

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.