When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

Saying goodbye to the people you love isn't easy

Not everyone understands how you can spin two lassos at the same time, one of hope and one of grief.

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Leave it to a man to mess things up

I wish I could tell him I understand: the higher you raise your hopes, the farther you have to fall.