I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.

Every life has a soundtrack.

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

I think grief is like a really ugly couch. It never goes away. You can decorate around it; you can slap a doily on top of it; you can push it to the corner of the room-but eventually, you learn to live with it.

You can’t keep yourself from falling in love, but you can steer yourself away from the wrong people.

A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.

That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one