I think we are bound to, and by, nature. We may want to deny this connection and try to believe we control the external world, but every time there's a snowstorm or drought, we know our fate is tied to the world around us

The evening had turned sweet and blue.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.