What if what you know isn’t what people want to hear?

A real friend isn't capable of feeling sorry for you.

I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

if there isn’t a them, there can’t be an us.

To be truly popular, it has to look like something you are, when in reality, it's what you make yourself.

Parenting is really just a matter of tracking, of hoping your kids do not get so far ahead you can no longer see their next moves.