The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die.

be a good listener, don't judge and don't put boundaries on someone else's grief.

Only the liar knows he's lying

The doctors may be mapping out the war games, but it is the nurses who make the conflict bearable.

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.