Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job."

Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast.

Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.


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If you want something to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can ev...
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Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones...
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We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right....
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It's choice that makes us human.
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What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by wha...
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When you love someone more than he loves you, you'll do anything to switch the scales. You dress the...
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The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.
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Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.
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Is Fate getting what you deserve, or deserving what you get?
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If it had been easy for Romeo to get to Juliet, nobody would have cared. Same goes for Cyrano and Do...
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Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his i...
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Just because you keep something a secret doesn't mean it never happened, no matter how much you want...
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It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what ...
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You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.
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Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
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You make yourself strong because it's expected of you. You become confident because someone beside y...
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It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.
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How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how...
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I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as ...
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I know you love me. The question is, how much?
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What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forge...
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Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a...
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In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk a...
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Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.
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You know how sometimes, your life is so perfect you’re afraid for the next moment, because it coul...
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I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got ...
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You were in business making meth? Do you have any idea what that drug does to people?"

We...
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Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me"
"Do what?"
"Push me off the same cliff twice
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Most people who offer their help do it to make themselves feel better, not us. To be honest, I don't...
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People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.
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The moral of this story is that sometimes, you can attempt to make all the difference in the world, ...
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Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're ...
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Every life has a soundtrack.

There is a tune that makes me think of the summer I spent ru...
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You can fool yourself, you know. You'd think it's impossible, but it turns out it's the easiest thin...
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I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves m...
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Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it...
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Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots ...
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On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm ...
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I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved s...
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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, t...
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Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you...
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Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y...
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There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations
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I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti...
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It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did...
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It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee...
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Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else?
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...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ...
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I'm really proud of (
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When you read the art,
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You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives.
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Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w...
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In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa...
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They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th...
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She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e...
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The truth is the truth.
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Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l...
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High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug...
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When heaven breaks, who fixes it?
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Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D...
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newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas
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From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c...
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His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe...
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Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid.
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Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there.
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Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
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When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p...
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I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon...
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Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al...
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