What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

We dont have to accept each others beliefs..but we do have to accept each others right to believe them.

I am an activist. I have a really big pulpit with my fiction and I love knowing that I can make people think.

you can love a person and still hate the decisions they've made, can't you?

The more you get past pain, the more it goes from coal to diamond.

But sometimes, in order to win, you have to make sacrifices.

Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.