“Sometimes when I remember we aren't the same person, it shocks me.” — Laurie Frankel Love Copy Share Image
“There are few children more treasured than ill-behaved ones who belong to someone else.” — Laurie Frankel Child Copy Share Image
“Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones” — Laurie Frankel Choice Copy Share Image
“You can tell anytime,’ Penn said, ‘but once people know, they can never unknow.” — Laurie Frankel People Know Copy Share Image
“The real trick is you have to forge your way straight ahead through the trees where there is no path.” — Laurie Frankel Journey Copy Share Image
“. . . there was nothing yet to fear, and so he passed it off as joy, as heart-pounding, pulse-quaking joy. Not… — Laurie Frankel Fear Copy Share Image
“I'm so sorry because it's still not easy. You have a long, hard, terrible road ahead. There are lots of ways to… — Laurie Frankel Hard Copy Share Image
“If you don’t worry about something until it’s already a problem,’ said Rosie, ‘that’s not worry. That’s observation.” — Laurie Frankel Fear Copy Share Image
“How did you teach your small human that it’s what’s inside that counts when the truth was everyone was pretty preoccupied with… — Laurie Frankel Truth Copy Share Image
“Turns out fixing people up is not how we make money. It's failing to fix people up while still giving them hope… — Laurie Frankel Fixing Copy Share Image
“For my child, for all our children, I want more options, more paths through the woods, wider ranges of normal, and unconditional… — Laurie Frankel Children Copy Share Image
“This was loss that ruined your life leading straight to gain that saved it. It wasn’t silver lining; it was a whole… — Laurie Frankel Life Copy Share Image
“She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice.” — Laurie Frankel Brave Copy Share Image
“Rosie was also used to conflicting emotions, for she was a mother and knew every moment of every day that no one… — Laurie Frankel Children Copy Share Image
“This is what Grandma was worried about, you know.' 'Me eating a whole chocolate cake practically all by myself in a single… — Laurie Frankel Chocolate Copy Share Image
“Dispelling fear. Taming what was scary not by hiding it, not by blocking it or burying it, not by keeping it secret,… — Laurie Frankel Choose love Copy Share Image
“Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread… — Laurie Frankel Literature Copy Share Image
“But by the time those acquaintances became close friends, it was too late. Perhaps there was a perfect moment in between, when… — Laurie Frankel Acquaintances Copy Share Image
“It happens to everyone," she assured Princess Stephanie. "It does?" Stephanie doubted it. "Sure. Everyone's someone else sometimes. Everyone transforms. Maybe not… — Laurie Frankel Change Copy Share Image
“Lot of clinics in Bangkok do surgery but mostly for foreigner. Many kathoey here let be. Which parts not what matter. Is… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“You have to help him see that if he’s disappearing from the world, that’s too high a price to pay for fitting… — Laurie Frankel Disappearing Copy Share Image
“Part of dedicating your life to studying literature is realizing that storytelling is more than just make-believe and that make-believe is far… — Laurie Frankel Books Copy Share Image
“...ultimately, eventually, we let go. We do this not because we're ready. We do this not because we've mended. We do this… — Laurie Frankel Blood flow Copy Share Image
“Sam rocked backwards and felt all the breath leave his body. Sam felt all his breath leave the room, the apartment, the… — Laurie Frankel Breath Copy Share Image
“Through that whole winter and spring, Claude came home every day from preschool, shed his clothes, and put the princess dress back… — Laurie Frankel Every day Copy Share Image
“What was clear, however, was that the Buddha was born male, then cut off all his hair one day and got enlightened,… — Laurie Frankel Buddha Copy Share Image
“These kids, her multitudes, they could grow up. They could move Away. They could—they would—become new, become changed, become actual adult people… — Laurie Frankel Children Copy Share Image
“You have to make these huge decisions on behalf of your kid, this tiny human whose fate and future is entirely in… — Laurie Frankel Decisions Copy Share Image
“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go… — Laurie Frankel Books Copy Share Image
“Easy is nice, but it’s not as good as getting to be who you are or stand up for what you believe… — Laurie Frankel Easy Copy Share Image
“I wish for my child, for all our children, a world where they can be who they are and become their most… — Laurie Frankel Children Copy Share Image
“...just to be with you. That's what you do for me. You simply outweigh everything else. That's how love should be, I… — Laurie Frankel Love Copy Share Image
“Just because it’s made up, doesn’t mean it isn’t real,” said Penn. “Made up is the most powerful real there is.” — Laurie Frankel Isn Real Copy Share Image
“Boys and girls, you asked good questions, and you asked them nicely and quietly, so I’m putting a cookie token in our… — Laurie Frankel Food Copy Share Image
“Our first concern is his happiness of course; but not just today." Because it wasn't that simple, was it? Raising children was… — Laurie Frankel Children Copy Share Image
“All life. You are never finish, never done. Never become, always becoming. You know? Life is change so is always okay you… — Laurie Frankel Change Copy Share Image
“After that she'd have to go elsewhere anyway for breadth of experience. A different part of the world where she would develop… — Laurie Frankel Children Enemies Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel is like making soup. The base is a broth we make up wholesale—for instance, I have one child, not… — Laurie Frankel Books Copy Share Image
“Mistake good because you learn, you fix.” “I don’t know how,” said Rosie. “Middle way.” “At home, there is no middle way.… — Laurie Frankel Conform Copy Share Image
