“How can such scary looking parents create something so cute?”

“Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.”

“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”

“That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.”

“And she actually looks—well, I’m not sure how to describe her. Scary is such an inadequate word, don’t you think?”

“You look as scary as a buttered muffin.”

“I can mix and match a cute shirt with some skinny jeans under a leather jacket and it looks fun and unique.”

“Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created.”

“… In its original Latin form, sacrifice means to make sacred or to make holy. I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting, regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred.”

“I… understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.”