If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas

I wonder if, as you get older, you stop missing people so fiercely. Maybe growing up is just focusing on what you've got, instead of what you don't.

When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

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

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.