Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.

- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Anyone can grow into something beautiful.

- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myse…

- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.

- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

She was perfect. I knew this the moment she emerged from my body, white and wet and wailing. Beyond the requisite ten fingers and ten toes, the beati…

- Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

- Vanessa Diffenbaugh