Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

You always knew after shitty things happened, who your friends really were.

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas

I shouldn't have eavesdropped, but sometimes, that's the only way to find out the truth.

I have no idea what Andrew might have done, and I do not ask. She believes that I can fix this, and like always, that's enough to make me think that I can. "I'll take care of it,: I say, when what I really mean is: I'll take care of you.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.