“. . .we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night- because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than the law.”

“The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble through and make decisions that allow us to sleep at night--because morals are more important than ethics, and love is more important than law.”

“You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.”

“And that was the greatest heartbreak of all- no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it turns out, kids are more like us than we think: damaged, through and through.”

“But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?”

“We all have things that come back to haunt us. Some of us just see them more clearly than others.”

“This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.”