I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?

Love [is] supposed to move mountains, to make the world go round, to be all you need, but it [falls] apart at the deatils. It [can't] save a single person.

We Pisces, we're a special breed.

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

Her mouth is always on the verge of a smile. It makes her look like there's always something amazing she needs to tell me, even when it's just hello.