“Love has nothing to do with it. It’s commitment and toughness when your world shatters around you. It’s losing babies and jobs and hope. It’s sickness and pain, and disillusionment and broken dreams.” — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“Dedication: To friends—that word for rare and precious people who care about one another Who cry together Laugh together Dream together You live in my heart Thank you, my friends!” — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“The man possessed a communal strength of body and soul, coupled with endless compassion and a desire to help the less fortunate of mind… — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“But it wasn’t the high foreheads, the flat noses, the half protrusion of thick lips that pulled Christine in, held her there, as she… — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“But God doesn’t make bad things happen or necessarily stop them from happening. What He does do is give us strength to understand and… — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“Anybody that’s ever loved has been hurt, some worse than others. Hearts ripped, trust gone, even hope tossed in the trash.” Those eyes grew… — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“A mother knows her children’s weaknesses, even if she sometimes refuses to acknowledge them.” — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“It was true that one could be more alone with someone than by oneself.” — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“You can’t catch a creature like that anymore than you can catch a person. You can only create an environment they might want to… — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“her form of prayer and her mother’s were not the same. Virginia Romano recited Hail Mary’s and Our Fathers, clicking rosary beads like a… — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
“But a mother sees her child’s shortcomings, even if she doesn’t admit to them very often.” — Mary Campisi Copy Share Image
