“Parenting is something that happens mostly while you’re thinking of something else.”
“Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something else to think and talk about.”
“You ever think that life is something that happens and that you’re not ever completely prepared for?”
“When something happens, something else always happens.”
“It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.”
“What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.”