People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.

Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.