the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.

I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.

Love is not simply the sum of sweet greetings and wrenching partings and kisses and embraces, but is made up more of the memory of what has happened and the imagining of what is to come.

Once you tell your first lie, the first time you lie for him, you are in it with him, and then you are lost.

Olympia thinks often about desire - desire that stops the breath, that causes a preoccupied pause in the midst of uttering a sentence - and how it may upend a life and threaten to dissolve the soul.

THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives it a fresh, new perspective-moving us through a wrenching gamut of emotions as she does so. A searing look at one of the worst periods in our history.

A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.