Isn't it funny how the people least impacted by tragedy are the most eager to move on?

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

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.

The worst violence we can do to each other often is psychological, especially in families. I dwell a lot on domestic danger. Thats the backdrop of most of my novels - what kind of damage is done without ever lifting a finger.

anyone who used the word hip probably wasn't.

Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time.

You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.