“...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.”

“Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.”

“I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child.”

“Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.”

“And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the screen. There's nothing like watching Anaconda with your best...”

“She lived in fear of ifonic endings. (91)”

“A DEFINITION NOT FOUND IN THE DICTIONARY Not leaving: an act of trust and love,often deciphered by children”

“The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic...”

“When God Created Mothers"When the Good Lord was creating mothers, He was into His sixth day of "overtime" when the angel appeared and said. "You're doing a lot of fiddling around on this one." And ...”

“Rosy waited as long as she dared then sat forward and let her eye rove Frannys lounge, up and down the shelves, looking for something, not even sure she could bring herself to act if she saw it aga...”

“Over the water of time I call to youIn a language I do not know.”

“Grandmam came back from that distance in time that separates grandmothers from their grandchildren and made herself a mother to me.”

“My mom, dad, grandparents, we all do voices.”

“Two of my grandparents died in a car crash. Sucks, 'cause they would have lived to a hundred.”

“Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.”