My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

How far can a person go... and still live with himself.

I think we deserve a happily-ever-after." "If anyone ever did, it's us.

It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.

I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.

At home I was raped by a guy i thought I loved' Trixie said, because thats what it was to her and always would be.

When you're pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your life trying to figure out how to keep her close enough for comfort. That's the strange thing about being a mother: Until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one.