The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.

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

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

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

I never even believed in happiness. I didn't think it existed. Now look at me. I'm ready to believe in just about anything.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.