“Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since the parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are. ... you can either practice being right or practice being kind. Screaming in the car helped. [p. 94]”

“You can either practice being right or practice being kind.”

“First I showered off that horrible butt smell you get from being on an airplane. [p. 257]”

“one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness and rage.”

“If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.”

“After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.”

“... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p. 65]”