“No one wants to mother more vigilantly than a woman who is childless and wishes she wasn’t.”

“No woman is a more vibrant instrument in the hands of the Lord than a woman of God who is thrilled to be who she is.”

“I wished my mother was here tonight, which is stupid, because it’s an impossible wish.” He shrugs and turns to me, drowning the smile that cracks me every time. “It’s not stupid to want to see her again.” “It wasn’t so much that I wanted to see her again,” he says, looking at me with the depth of more than seventeen years in his eyes. “I wanted her to see you.”

“I would not have dreamed back then, could never have imagined, that one day I would be a childless mother too.”

“No one was more stunned by the choice than her mother, who claimed to the saleswoman that she hadn't seen Danielle that dressed up since her first Communion.”

“She was a woman who cared more about what she was right about than about being right.”