It would look pretty messed up to be a social worker and have dried kid blood as a permanent stain in your vehicle.

I somehow make it through the first month. I dress and brush my teeth when they tell me to. And I experience the hollow feeling of complete loss, which is emptiness.

For someone grieving, moving forward is the challenge. Because after extreme loss, you want to go back.

I force myself to think of anything but the one thing that I'm actually always thinking about. And that is so exhausting that I sleep more than I ever have.

This is why the deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

Only in cartoons and fairy tales and greeting cards do endings have glitter

I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.

She said they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential

At least it's working out because Cheddar is sort of obsessed with me, or at least very interested, which in the world of felines counts as obsessive behavior.

[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.

Every person has lots of ingredients to make them what is always a one-in-a-kind creation. We are all imperfect genetic stews.

Romy had never done a budget, Marisol had never designed costumes and sets, and Suzanne had never acted, but when I asked them to help, they didn't hesitate

Unless you change who you are now, you'll never get what you want. If you change who you are and how you are, then you’ll get what you want.

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.

All the words you need are to be found in the dictionary. All you have to do is put them in the right order.

If you make money, you might not make meaning.

Do we have Steve Jobs to thank for the iPod and iPod shuffle? iTunes? I think so. He changed the way we hear and think about music.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

A lot of things in 'Parents' I find very truthful.