(24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer. - Jodi Picoult

And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.