Victoria Secunda

“To be a good-enough parent, you have to be a bad-enough parent.”

“Siblings are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring, quite often the hard way.”

“Denial is a save-now-pay-later scheme.”

“The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”

“Our parents' lives are the dish we eat from, but their lives are also the dish we are served in.”

“The family is the repository of all our secret hurts.”

“Rivalry is the life-creating, life-promoting, and life-enhancing, force of our species.”

“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

“Grief is a process, not a state.”