I realize then that we never have children, we receive them. And sometimes it’s not for quite as long as we would have expected or hoped. But it is still far better than never having had those children at all.

“A photo says, you were happy, and I wanted to catch that. A photo says, you wer…”

“Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made …”

“And when your wife is not the same person you fell in love with eight years ago…”

“Hers were the pale gray that made you think of nightfall and silver bullets and…”