“I know I wasn’t there the day you came into the world, I wasn’t there for your first steps or your first words, but I promise I will be there for many more of your firsts.”

“I know I wasn’t there the day you came into the world, I wasn’t there for your first steps or your first words, but I promise I will be there for many more of your firsts.”
“I now wish so badly you had told me how to do life without you.”
“Although the trauma I assumed he came from may indeed be factual, I was called to admit that Dad, too, was just a product of systemic failures. One day, you might get to go back to your world, back to your people. Back to your Daddy, with whom you belong.”
“You get one life. Just one. And you can’t spend another second of yours trying to please other people.”
“I knew I was dying. I was a shell of the woman who had had a baby 7 months prior. The tumor had grown to take over half of my breast and the pain was unbearable.”
“He made a fist and cocked it back. I could feel his fury. I remember reaching over, just an hour after surgery, and snatching his hand as he started to strike. It hurt like heck in my abdomen, but I couldn’t let him do what I wanted to do myself… hit that physician.”
“I didn’t her every memory to be of me tipsy with a drink in my hand. Feeling grief without alcohol was the hardest thing I’ve had to do, but I had to walk through it and I’m proud of that.”
“You refilled my heart with a certain kind of magic. You may have been last to find your way to my heart and arms, but my goodness, how much you were worth waiting for.”
“To be invited into their world is a privilege.”
“Sometimes it takes missing a turn and crying in front of a stranger to realize you’ve got some work to do in the department of self-kindness.”