People are always beautiful when you love them..

We're looking for stories that speak to us. We're looking for stories that connect us with something true. But, instead, a lot of the time we get str….

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them..

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day..

And despite everything I know now, I still believe, as I did when I was little, that there is an entire universe of things that my mother knows that ….

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better..

That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the ….

It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted..

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter..

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world..

There is no tenderness without bravery..

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to ….

If you feel lucky, then you are..

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. T….

And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good care of yourself, and you will learn to take good….

I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use w….

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart..

Look for beauty in everything..

There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is where kisses come from.' I had been thinking ….

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory..