Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning.

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.