“There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief and even death.”

“Its like saying youre fixed in the past, and youre running out of time. Every moment is only the beginning of something new”

“Isnt it tragic that sometimes it takes grief to understand what we have held so dear?”

“Mothers always worry. Theres no off switch.”

“You know that song, 'Woodstock.' It says 'We are stardust.' And we are. We come from stardust. Everything on earth is just ashes.”

“Isn’t it tragic that sometimes it takes grief to understand what we have held so dear?”

“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.”

“The next day, when I came home from the library, there was a small, used red record player in my room. I found my mother in the kitchen and spotted a bandage taped to her arm. Ma, I asked. Where di...”