You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

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.

It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.

What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other