Jill told me that when you're really in love, you know right away. I'm not exactly sure how this happens. Is it like a flash of lightning? Like an angel tapping you on the shoulder? Or is it similar to choosing a puppy? You think you're picking the cutest one, but really you wind up going home with the one who keeps insisting on climbing into your lap.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

You can try to take sorrow and make it into something enduring, meaningful and beautiful. I always feel guilty that this is my job, that I get to do this

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe