Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

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

You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you." "Was there a next time?" "Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Don Quixote and Gatsby and their respective paramours. What captures the imagination is watching men throw themselves at a brick wall over and over again, and wondering if this is the time that they won't be able to get back up.