No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

Ironically, now that my children are older and gone quite a bit, I find it harder to work when they're not around. Too much free time!

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.

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 if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now.

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.