“I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.”

“No point carrying useless ballast. It won't change a thing.”

“Children are knives, my mother once said. They dont mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, dont we, we clasp them until the blood flows.”

“Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.”

“And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been if he and I had been capable of trusting each other for a change. And so w...”

“We didnt see anyone that day. We had no expectations. Everything was spontaneous. There wasnt a single moment of stress. We laughed like crazy all afternoon though I couldnt tell you what about. A...”

“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 ...”