Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.
Rain didn’t make things messy. People did that all on their own.
I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.
What she did have, after raising two children, was the equivalent of a PhD in mothering and my undying respect.
You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn’t.
If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.
I can’t spend the rest of my life competing for your attention and coming in last.
Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.
People don’t cry because they’re weak. They cry because they’ve been strong for too long.
There are always hurdles in life. Getting over them is how we move forward.
When you lose the most precious thing in your life, how do you go on? How do you not?
Just when you thought you’d reached a good place in life, a crisis could erupt and spill into the corners you thought most secure.
When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life. I’m tired of focusing on what we lost. I want to focus on what we had.
Anger was what came of hurt that had simmered too long.
The trouble with waking up in the morning is that you look like who you are. That’s great if you like who you are – not so great if you don’t.
What if the past won’t stay packed away in a box with my name on it, just sitting there until I feel like taking if off the shelf and lifting the lid?
Men weren’t always a solution. There were times when they made things worse.
Silence had pounded a nail in the coffin of my marriage. But communication was key.
Taking responsibility is a step toward redemption.
Right or not, a mother always blamed herself when something went wrong.