I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.

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

I wonder how a lioness will manage in a dovecote. Can you put away your teeth and claws?

I feel like my eyes are killing me at the end of the day and that I shouldn't use them.

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

Jill and I have known each other our whole lives. One house separates our houses but we act as if it doesn't exist. We met before we were born and we'll probably still know each other after we die. At least, that's the way we're planning it.