‘The main thing is that you need to show the children that they’re not in charge.’

If Anaya continues continues on this path, no hurdle placed in her way will be able to stop her.

‘I’m not a solitary person. I like company.’

‘She never got any breaks. Every time she went to the doctor she got the worst news of her life.’

‘Most of the people in my classes, whether it was community college or here, are in their 20-somethings. I’m old enough to be their mom. Some of them, their grandma!’

‘I cried, I shook uncontrollably. I had goosebumps. Some sense of feeling like Jenni’s finally got some justice.’

‘I guess there is no question who is watching over their residence while they sleep.’

‘I didn’t see him for a while just because I was looking up at the screen waiting for it to start.’

‘Once in a while, you like to tiptoe out onto the beach, where the happiness is, but then you go right back into your shell.’

‘Well, tomorrow is your mother’s 65th birthday, and the birthday present that she dreamed of her whole life is that you would come back to her.’