When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window..

Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep ….

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization..

The law's the law, but people are people..

We live with the decisions we makeThat’s what bravery is. Standing by the consequences of your mistakes..

To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past..

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: fierceness on a scale on….

Right and wrong can be like bloody snakes: so tangled up that you can't tell which is which until you've shot 'em both, and then it's too late..

Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past..

Once a child gets into your heart, there’s no right or wrong about it..

Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it..

There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only….

History is that which is agreed upon by mutual consent..

You don’t think ahead in years or months: you think about this hour, and maybe the next. Anything else is speculation..

Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A world that hasn't changed….

Nature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making..

When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict i….

You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day..

Every end is the beginning of something else..

That's how life goes on - protected by the silence that anesthetizes shame..

Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes ba….