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

Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.

Children don't heal as well.. they change.. they mutate with disaster and make accomodations.

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

Love is never as ferocious as when you think it's going to leave you.

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

I loved him," Muire said. "We were in love." As if that were enough.