This is how I learn most of what I know about my children and their friends: by sitting in the driver's seat and keeping quiet. - Anna Quindlen

It’s great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Four A.M. and the darkness had a quality of inexorability and menace as though it would never lift, as though, without anyone noticing it, the dawn of the day before had been the beginning of the last light ever in the history of the world.

It's so much easier, to learn to love what you have instead of yearning always for what you're missing, or what you imagine you're missing. It's so much more peaceful.