A child embarrassed by his mother,” she said, “is just a child who hasn’t lived long enough.

For many of us, the curtain had just come down on childhood.

But there's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begin.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.