“Pregnancy is a time to plan what kind of emotional world our child will grow up in...”

“As we carry our baby inside us, we know almost nothing about it that distinguishes it from anyone else's baby--except that we love it unlike any other baby.”

“We go into labor as one person, but emerge as another.”

“Don’t you dare pee on me.”

“He shook his head and looked away, as if he was giving himself a firm lecture only he could here.”

“Instead of letting our emotions run amok with our minds, we can use our minds as tools that allow us to build realities that serve us better,and we attract what we are meant to attract because we are aware and self-empowered enough to choose most of the time.”

“If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it.”