“(Georgie) Did you know that a woman's life is shortened by thirty-four weeks for each boy baby she gives birth to?”

“(Georgie) Two hundred years later and it's exactly the same thing. You want to spend every single moment with your children and still have a fulfilling life at work.”

“(Georgie) Why is it that you always want to run after the one that goes off in a huff, and push away the one who is clinging to you?”

“(Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever”

“(Peter) Easy to see in hindsight, but also easy to feel that, in another great city, on another continent, I was erasing her four years of unhappiness and setting her charmed life back on course.”

“(Peter) Best to remember that life is lived not just in phases but also in layers.”

“(Peter) If you don't share the lows, it seems you might stop sharing the highs as well.”