The dead can't change, but you can.

All you had of a person was what they showed you.

Always remember,” she had told him. “When you’re grown up, I want you to take your girlfriend, or your wife, or boyfriend – whoever it is you love – and you make sure they know you so well they can read your mind. You don’t even have to tell them what you need, because they already know it. If they don’t – well, it isn’t love.

I’ve always had a clear sense that time is short and we need to live as fully as we can in every moment.

The way to get free of pain is to dive down into it. To acknowledge it.

Why doesn’t he get over it already? But that was the secret, wasn’t it? You never got over what you lost. You always carried it with you, stitched to you like Peter Pan’s shadow. And you never wanted to get over it, because who wanted to forget a time that had been so important? No, the truth was, you wanted to remember it always.

Never be with anyone you couldn’t imagine yourself being able to live without.

I think it’s crucial to live, play and work passionately. I’m inspired by my husband, my son and the sense of possibility in the world.

I really want to go into the future 500 years and be a quantum physicist. Not only would I get to see all the incredible inventions I know will be out there, but I’d be able to understand the science behind them!

Open adoption, when it works, is fabulous. But when it goes wrong, it’s so traumatizing for everybody.