I realize how quickly lies compound. They cover like a coat of paint, one on top of the other, until you cannot remember what color you started with.

I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?

On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.