[There's a] point where you have to leave the dough alone. It's silly to anthropomorphize bread, but I love the fact that it needs to sit quietly, to retreat from touch and noise and drama, in order to evolve. I have to admit, I often feel that way myself.

you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.

Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.