Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

It felt like I'd been living underground, and for a moment, I'd been given this glimpse of the sky. Once you've seen that, how can you go back where you came from?

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.

I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.