“I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.”

“I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.”

“You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

“Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood - finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.”

“A very wise man once told me that you can't look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

“ How are you going to know who I am, she finally said, if I dont look like me?”

“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”