The days she was finally brought out of the house would later be remembered as a day when shadows seemed blacker, as if something more lingered in those darkened spaces.

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

Love makes us such fools.

She laughed for her wasted, difficult life that never had to be wasted or difficult in the first place.

children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

She is the glorious reincarnation of every woman ever loved.

The whole world had given up on love anyway and clung instead to its malformed cousins: lust, narcissism, self-interest.

Because I'm your mother, that's why.

Forgive means for get the hurt and give love.

A secret note is secret. There is no reason to sign it.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

How on earth Traore gets into this team is beyond me. And he's a Champions League winner? Gimme a break.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

When we surrender to God, we let go of our attachment to how things happen on the outside, and we become more concerned with what happens on the inside.

Mine! There isn't any such thing as mine. The world slips slithering through my fingers.

I love narrative and sometimes I feel frustrated with stand-up.

The welfare system in this country has literally crippled millions. It has gotten people bound and gagged so that they cannot get off it. It is such a fouled-up system.

Oh what a friend chance can be — when it chooses.