The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

We must err , do so on the side of audacity

This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me.

Every living creature on the earth is special. You want to be the one that puts an end to one of them?

I think there must be a place inside of us where dreams go and wait their turn.

You have untold strengths and resources inside. You have your glorious self.

Regrets don't help anything.