“My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.”

“Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.”

“We are friends for life. When were together the years fall away. Isnt that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far youve come?”

“The truth will make you odd.”

“Do you think just having a baby automatically makes you love it?''I'm not sure... you might have to learn to love it, like any other person.”

“We must, we must, we must increase our bust.”

“A relationship between two people is made up, for the most part, of invisible things: memories, shared experiences, hopes and fears. When one person disappears, the other is left alone, as if holdi...”

“...this two-way hatred. I dont understand it. I wonder how much of it is caused by fear?”

“It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.”

“I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. Its okay if you have to leave us. Its okay if you want to stop fighting.”

“I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her e...”

“Tragedy is like a strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”

“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire l...”

“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.”