Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

That was the way love was, invisible, there whether or not you wanted to see it or admit to it.

Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.

I feel as if when you love a book it becomes a part of you whether you have it on your shelves or not.