If you've lived through it, you already know there are no words that will ever come close to describing it, and if you didn't - you will never understand.

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

I imagine the touch of someone who loves you so much, he cannot bear to watch you sleep; and so you wake up with his hand on your heart.