“ He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings, he couldn't reach anyways. In the end though what he could give her was better than magic wands and… Laurie Frankel
“ Such a tough life. This is not the easy way." "No," Penn agreed, "but I'm not sure easy is what I want for the kids anyway." She looked up at him. "Why the hell not?" "I mean, if we could have everyth… Laurie Frankel
“ Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones Laurie Frankel
“ Our first concern is his happiness of course; but not just today." Because it wasn't that simple, was it? Raising children was the longest of long games. Laurie Frankel
“ Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want. Laurie Frankel
“ Poems are surmountable. They have rhymes and rhythms to help you make meaning. They're short enough. . . to read and reread until you've made some sense of them. Short stories are a different ballgame… Laurie Frankel
“ 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 out into a world of infinite possibilities. Female cha… Laurie Frankel
“ It happens to everyone," she assured Princess Stephanie."It does?" Stephanie doubted it."Sure. Everyone's someone else sometimes. Everyone transforms. Maybe not in quite the same way as you, but that'… Laurie Frankel
“ Part of dedicating your life to studying literature is realizing that storytelling is more than just make-believe and that make-believe is far more important that we all pretend -- make believe -- it… Laurie Frankel
