Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who love you unconditionally, don't you think?

If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thing of all.

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

is it like this every night, while we're asleep?