Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

After all, the only way to communicate is to find someone who can comprehend; the only way to be forgiven is to find someone who is willing to forgive.

What does it feel like?” he asked. “What does what feel like?” Peter thought for a moment. “Being at the top.” Josie reached across him for another packet of material and fed it into the stapler. She did three of these, and Peter was certain that she was going to ignore him, but then she spoke. “Like if you take one wrong step,” she said, “you’re going to fall.

Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you