“No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.”

“I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces.”

“Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”

“Iknew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by thetime he was thirty-five…but I couldn’t get him there overnight. You can’t fast-forward your child’slife, no matter how much you want to.”

“until you have a baby, you don't even realize how much you were missing one”

“Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning?A: Unfertilized”

“...a witness is defined through what he sees, not what he says. And just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want that to be true.”