That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one

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

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

Bleeding heart, he’d called her. Well. He should know. He’d been the first to rip it to pieces.

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.

I wanted him to feel what I felt when I was with him: that incredible combination of comfort, decadence, and wonder; the knowledge that, with just a single taste of him, I was addicted.

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.