A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

It's the child who's supposed to cry, and the mom who makes it all better, not the other way around, which is why mothers will move heaven and earth to hold it together in front of their own kids.

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

I think once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.

I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.

Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?

for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.