There are legions of us, I realized. The mothers who have broken babies, and spend the rest of our lives wondering if we should have spared them. And the mothers who have let their broken babies go, who look at our children and see instead the faces of the ones they never met.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

Even the most beautiful things can be toxic.

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

Life could take on any number of shapes while you were busy fighting your own demons. But if you were changing at the same rate as the person beside you, nothing else really mattered. You became each other's constant.