But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.

People changed. Even the people you thought you knew as well as you knew yourself.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

Embarrassment isn't a just cause of action.

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

If words had flavors, hers would be bitter almonds and coffee grounds.