Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

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

You have to choose the voice you are going to trust. You can't listen to everyone.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

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

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.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.