What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.

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

I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.

Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

Most people know that Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite authors.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her.