He'd thought he was lost, but now he recognized that eternity was around him, like salt from a shaker or stars in the sky.

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

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

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

They say that dogs may dream, and when Topsy was old, his feet would move in his sleep. With his eyes closed he would often make a noise that sounded quite human, as if greeting someone in his dreams. At first it seemed that he believed Sara would return, but as the years went by I understood that his loyalty asked for no reward, and that love comes in unexpected forms. His wish was small, as hers had been -- merely to be beside her. As for me, I already knew I would never get what I wanted.

They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.