“Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”

“I could tell her from personal experience that when people we love make choices we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness. But all this took me a lifetime to discover, and where has it gotten me?... Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.”

“Some women are meant to change the world, while others are meant to hold it together. And then there are those of us who simply don't want to be in it, because we know no matter how much we struggle, we can't comfortably fit.”

“There are some weapons you can't protect yourself against.”

“There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn.”

“Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.”

“It is the role of the BCYF caseworker to simply go along for the ride, so that if by some miracle it reaches the trial stage, everything has been done the way the government likes it.”