“Love makes us such fools.”

“Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.”

“She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.”

“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

“To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.”

“children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people”

“It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.”

“It didn't matter that there was a war on our doorstep. She had things to do, places to be.”

“Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you.”