Quotes from Brenda Novak

She had a diaper pail, a car seat, a stroller and something he'd never even seen before—a breast pump, according to the box. He picked it up to take a closer look, decided he was glad to be a man and set it back down.

there were two kinds of men: strong men, who remained true to their internal compasses regardless of all else; and weak men who were easily misled and wound up cheating themselves of all they could be. He'd told Gabe he only wanted strong men

She could only attribute the difference to each parent's attitude. Micah acted as if all was well, so Trevor responded in a similar manner. Paige acted as though she was miserable, and that meant Trevor had to worry about her and carry a lot of angst.

What was one more skeleton in an already crowded closet?

it's my baby, too, isn't it?" "Are you double-checking?" "Just confirming." "Yes. It's your baby. It can't be anyone else's. Sorry that I haven't been more promiscuous," she said sarcastically.

I was literally singing to myself on my way home, after the killing. The tension, the desire to kill a woman, had built up in such explosive proportions that when I finally pulled the trigger, all the pressures, all the tensions, all the hatred, had just vanished, dissipated, but only for a short time. – DAVID BERKOWITZ, THE SON OF SAM

Reenie. It's not easy approaching the woman my husband loved more than me." "I'm sorry for what Keith did, Liz. To both of us.

I mean that love is enough—when the time is right

familiarity breeds acceptance.

Well, for heaven's sake, don't leave her unattended. You never know what she might do," she snapped and promptly appeared in the doorway.

of taking what life gave her, she should take what she wanted from life.

She thought of Jonah and regretted that she hadn't really forgiven him as she'd promised. Holding a grudge suddenly seemed so contrary to her own happiness, so pointless. What good was it? No good, because it kept them apart. She wished she could tell him she was finally ready to start over and make it work, to forgive Adriana, as well.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man—the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reasons. —Abraham J. Heschel, rabbi and philosopher (1907–72)

Because you're obviously working very hard to protect yourself against what's happening, and I didn't want to undermine you.

once had a mother, too. Just having the title doesn't mean you do the job.

Sometimes we see the jagged rocks in our path, but we still can't avoid them.

You're like…you're like Abraham Lincoln. Didn't he walk some ungodly distance to return a penny? The store clerk probably thought he was an idiot.

We all just do the best we can. When we make mistakes, we admit them, learn from them, ask forgiveness and move on.

To love is to lose control.  Ã¢â'¬â€Paulo Coelho

my mother finally told him, possibly years

Somehow she had to find some middle ground between taking a stand for the right and being there for her children, even when they did the exact opposite of what she told them.

you care how I feel? What I think?" When she couldn't wrench her

Grandpa Garnier: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

And you can reach them, because you know what it's like to have a difficult childhood. It's made you caring, empathetic and willing to get off your ass instead of just sitting back and enjoying your money.