Children laugh an average of three hundred or more times a day; adults laugh an average of five times a day. We have a lot of catching up to do.

- Heather King

I didn’t want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.

- Heather King

Know that every mother occasionally feels "at the end of her rope." When you reach the end of your rope, don't add guilt to your frustration. No one …

- Heather King

Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I was …

- Heather King

Prayer is like practicing the piano or ballet or writing: you have to bring your body for a very long time, in spite of your body’s frailties and con…

- Heather King

I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hund…

- Heather King

Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality.

- Heather King

I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. T…

- Heather King

Christ-as always, the model-never sat back, crossed his arms, and dismissed the annoying, the troublesome, or the unpromising. He never name-called, …

- Heather King