I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exactly where our sons and daughters are; we just don't necessarily want them to be there

When your existence is hell, death must be heaven.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.