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

I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.

Annie turned away, her eyes glittering. 'Here's what no one tells you,' she said. 'When you deliver a fetus, you get a death certificate, but not a birth certificate. And afterward, your milk comes in, and there's nothing you can do to stop it.' She looked up at me. 'You can't win. Either you have the baby and wear your pain on the outside, or you don't have the baby, and you keep that ache in you forever. I know I didn't do the wrong thing. But I don't feel like I did the right thing, either.

When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

It feels like a punch. Tears fill my eyes, and I wonder how I could be upset over losing something I never had.

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.