You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

How can we not create a fantasy in our minds when the reality is so hard?

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.