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.

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

I think...she said finally, "that all of us have got our ghosts.

Religion isn't in your DNA. you don't believe just because your parents believe.

She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.