Quotes from work

For One More Day

“You count the hours you could have spent with your mother, it's a lifetime in itself.”

“Something is always happening somewhere.”

“You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.”

“Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.”

“There is everything you know and there is everything that happens. When the two do not line up, you make a choice.”

“Kids chase the love that eludes them, and for me, that was my father's love. He kept it tucked away, like papers in a briefcase. And I kept trying to get in there.”

“I made the wrong choice," I whispered.
My mother shook her head.
"A child should never have to choose.”

“My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.”

“There are many things in my life that I wish I could take back. Many moments I would recast.”

“Going back to something is harder than you think.”