Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was great to see, and it hurt like hell.

“She said to go ahead and feel the feelings. I did. They felt like shit.”

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a…”

“After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to he…”

“My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic…”