When you love someone - when you create a child with him - you don't just suddenly lose that bond. Like any other energy, it can't be destroyed, just channeled into something else.

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

When a freedom is taken away from you, I suppose, you recognize it as a privilege, not a right.

A lot of the moms of autistic kids I met are so consumed with being their child's advocate that there's no room for anything else - least of all themselves. It's why so many marriages end in divorce, when a child is diagnosed on the spectrum.

But Katie knew it was a sin, had known from the moment she made the decision to lie with Adam. However, the transgression wasn't making love without the sanction of marriage. It was that for the first time in her life, Katie had put herself first. Put her own wants and needs above everything and everyone else.

But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

People believed what they wanted to believe, no matter what was right in front of their eyes.