If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

There were lies we told to save ourselves, and then there were lies we told to rescue others. What counted more, the mistruth, or the greater good?

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.