“Anyone can slay a dragon ...but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.”

“I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.”

“Resorting to connecting the dots this morning because it was a long night & he needs to do something really simple to get started again.”

“Bits of the World:gathering up bits of the world & setting them out in an order that her children can understand”

“we went to a church that had missionaries who'd come back once a year from Fiji & give talks. I remember one of them saying it was very hard work telling people they were going to lose their everlasting souls if they didn't shape up. I pictured people sitting on the beach listening to this sweaty man all dressed in black telling them they were going to burn in hell & them thinking this was good fun, these scary stories this guy was telling them & afterwards, they'd all go home & eat mango & fish & they'd play Monopoly & laugh & laugh & they'd go to bed & wake up the next day & do it all again.”

“What are the rules? I said & he said you run & you run & you run until you fall over. There's a couple others in there for variety, he added, but that's the main one.”

“Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.”