When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

I know you love me. The question is, how much?

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.