I wished for someone to hold me up. Suddenly someone was there.

Some things you cannot stop happening.

Some things are more than we can understand.

Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.

..there are two possible endings to every story.

At first I had not understood Mama. But as I grew older, maybe not wiser, certainly more realistic, I realized she did the best she could. She loved me, in her own way. Not everyone is born to be a mother. It does not come naturally to some women.