You [meaning mothers] said good-bye a little every day -- from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

It's a little known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a few magic words they can make you feel ten feet tall and bulletproof, they can slay the dragons of doubt and worry, they can make your problems disappear. But of course they can only do this as long as you're a child. When you've become an adult, become the master of your own universe, they're not as powerful as they once were. Maybe that's why so many of us take our time growing up.

It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?

I didn’t see the point of judging and analyzing a single moment in someone’s life.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.