You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

He gently touched his mother's cheek, felt her sorrow slip over his fingertips.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

You would be surprised at the lengths you will go to believe the best about someone if you truly love him

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

Rest easy, real mothers. The very fact that you worry about being a good mom means that you already are one.