There are skeletons in everyone's closet, things no one ever wants the world to discover.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitting my face into the curve of his shoulder and filling my lungs with the scent of him.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for, " Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

whoever has grown without a mother has missed half of his/her lifetime

Parenthood makes such sweet hypocrites of us all.

His hands are miracles. I can watch them for hours, transforming wood into something it never dreamed of being.

Rejoice always pray constantly and in all circumstances give thanks.

Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed

I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.

When the flood cometh it sweepeth away grain as well as chaff.

Sometimes you don't want to believe everything you hear.

We can't all come and go by bubble!

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.