When you have a child, you will do anything for her. You may not do it well, but you will kill yourself trying. You will trip over obstacles as your clear them out of her path. You will give her the choices you didn't have.

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.

In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.

When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a piece of yourself inside her, because sometimes that is what it takes to claim.

Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.