From what I was able to hear," Dane said, "Tara dumped off a surprise baby with your mother, who's planning to sell it on eBay." "Social Services," I said. "She hasn't thought of eBay yet.

But we have to find ways of compromising when we disagree on something. You know what compromise is, right?" "Uh-huh. It's when you don't get to have everything your way and I don't get to have everything my way, and no one's happy.

Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts." ~Leo to Merripen

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully.

Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.

He was my confidant, the person who was always on my side even when he wasn't taking my side.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.