“Balance is an illusion. Balance is just another word for control.”
“Love is what remains when everything else is gone. This is what I should have told my children when we left Texas. What I will tell them tonight. Not that they will understand yet. How could they? I am forty years old, and I just learned this fundamental truth myself. Love. In the best of times, it is a dream. In the worst of times, a salvation. I am in love. There it is. I ve written it down. Soon I will say it out loud. To him. I am in love. As crazy and ridiculous and implausible as it sounds, I am in love. And I am loved in return. And this-love-gives me the courage I need for today. The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very edge of this great land, and now, at last, we make our stand, fight for what we know to be right. We fight for our American dream, that it will be possible again. Jack says that I am a warrior and, while I don t believe it, I know this: A warrior believes in an end she can t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.”
“In the end it doesn t matter if this creature is really our mother. We feed it things and tell it about our problems. It s still all about us.”
“I have my fingerprints all over you. & I don t need the world to see them to know that they re there.”
“We are all so obsessed with protecting out child, aren t we? That s how we got into this mess in the first place. We want to paint a lovely picture that we hang over their window to block out how the world really works, to give them these lives. And to do that, we think we need to keep ourselves perfect too. But no mother in the history of the world has been able to protect her child forever. the world barges in through the front door eventually.”
“The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself. And the best way I can do this is to be who I am and hope that he will learn from this not how to be me, which is not possible, but how to be himself. And this means how to move to that voice from within himself, rather than to those raucous, persuasive, or threatening voices from outside, pressuring him to be what the world wants him to be.”
“I want my sons to learn to make something, not just destroy.”
“She grinned, a silty grin. You were my two dividends, yes? Don t you forget that. Then she sighed, took a deep breath, and said, But what an investment. My life.”
“প্রেম গোপন রাখাতে যে গভীর আনন্দ আছে তার থেকে আমি তাকে বঞ্চিত করতে যাব কেন? শুনেছি প্রথম গর্ভধারণ করে বহু মাতা সেটা যত দিন পারে গোপন রাখে। নিভৃতে আপন মনে সেই ক্ষুদ্র শিশুটির কথা ধ্যান করতে করতে সে চলে যায় স্বর্গলোকপানে, যেখান থেকে মুখে হাসি নিয়ে নেমে আসবে এই শিশুটি। ”