Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.

Even divorce, she thought, cannot erase all the bonds forged by years of marriage. Long after the papers are signed, decrees notarized, the ties still remain. And the most powerful tie of all is written in a child's flesh and blood.

Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.

... he knew that the cruelest of blows too often came with a smile.