“She was many things, but a liar was not one of them.”

“You got dealt some crappy cards. But you're the one who has to decide how to play them.”

“Two decades had passed, yet she still saw her parents' bloodied bodies in every shooting victim she treated.”

“She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface”

“It was so unlike her not to be able to sleep. No matter what was going on, she was usually out the second her head hit the pillow.”

“I said I was afraid and she told me to think about a time I felt brave and take that feeling into the situation with me. It worked. It helped.”Corinne leaned away from the Plexiglas, horrified.“Of course, since that time, I’ve learned much more about the technique,” her mother said. “I’ve learned to make it much more elegant, but the basics are still the same. Take that old calm, confident feeling with you into the new situation. I used it or a variant of it with clients all the time.” She knit her eyebrows, looking hard at Corinne. “I used it for evil during the kidnapping,” she said. “Now you can use it for good.”

“Every family has a story, and I love that those stories are etched in sand rather than granite. That way we can change them. We can bury the lies and embrace the truth. And we can move forward.”