“Every day as I wave to my children when I drop them off at school, or let one of them have a new experiencelike crossing the street without holding my handI experience the struggle between love and...”

“Motherhood is a predicament. How to live fully inside of it with any grace?”

“You read my words and instantly we are both connected”

“What, the Great War? in which your great-grandfather, who happened to be my grandfather, was gassed in the trenches not once, but twice? Which meant he and your great-grandmother were very poor, be...”

“You walked into my heart, Without my permission And the more I've tried to hold on to the control, They deeper you have sunk. Your a love I can't grasp hold of, maybe that's why it scares that abso...”

“My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different...”

“We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?”

“We were more alike than any of the others, neither of us quite human and both hated by the two species we drifted between.”