The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what's really important.

Mama?" "Yes, Emmy." She traced a rivulet of rain with her finger as it made its journey down the glass. "How do you know when it's been long enough?" Emmy could sense her mother smiling into the phone. "When you relaize that love doesn't have a time span. Only pain does. I think sometimes it's hard to distinguish between the two, so we just hold on to both of them like they're inseparable.

Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.

But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I'd never been.

Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.