When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.

The nurses, I have already learned, are the ones who give us the answers we’re desperate for. Unlike the doctors, who fidget like they need to be somewhere else, the nurses patiently answer us as if we are the first set of parents to ever have this kind of meeting with them, instead of the thousandth.

When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.

You know, he told me once, completely exasperated, you've got one glass of water inside your head, with all the tears for a lifetime. If you waste them over nothing, then you won't be able to cry for real when you need to.

What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got?