Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.

Sometimes it's difficult to tell what side of the moral compass we are all on. There are so many things to factor in.

I know he's a good baby... but the challenge is to raise him into a good boy, then a good man.

There's not a lot I can fix for her anymore. Band-Aid and bedtime story days are almost over. This, I can fix with a simple Welcome.

People like us will never really understand, Evanelle said. We fell in love with the men we were supposed to be with right off the bat. But women with broken hearts, they change.

Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see.

She did know that it's remarkably easy to fall in love with someone who is already in love with you. It's a little like falling in love with yourself.

Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch.

The feminist revolution had to be fought because women quite simply were stopped at a state of evolution far short of their human capacity.

...ism's are not good. A person should not believe in an ism. He should believe in himself.

Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.

When two people fight, they think less and speak more. They don’t listen to the opponent. They draw their own conclusions.

be the calm eye of the storm where nothing phases you, focus on your centre to remain balanced, let your life flow like a stream of wind

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

If a foreign government had imposed this system of education on the United States, we would rightly consider it an act of war.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.