“It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.”

“That's the strange thing about being a mother: until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

“You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.”

“The crisis might be what sticks in my mind, but the in-between moments are the ones I would not have missed for the world.”

“Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.”

“I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.”

“The only monsters I have ever known were men.”