“She has changed in this way that motherhood changes you, so that you forget you ever had time for small things like despising the color pink.”

“Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”

“By the way, there is nothing cute about a pink wheelchair. Pink doesn't change a thing.”

“It was hard to remember what the yard had looked like even twelve hours before, undisturbed and pristine. Like it takes so little to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.”

“If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.”

“It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”