Some women are meant to change the world while others are meant to hold it together.

What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

When we're awake, we see what we need to see. When we're asleep, we see what is really there.

How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?

I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view.

Asking me to describe my son is like asking me to hold the ocean in a paper cup

That's because you've never been one. You haven't spent years wearing someone else's clothes, taking someone else's name, living in someone else's houses, and working someone else's job to fit in. And if you don't sell out, then you run away... proving you're the Gypsy they said you were all along.