Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.

Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.