Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

In Orphan Train, Christina Baker Kline seamlessly knits together the past and present of two women, one young and one old. Kline reminds us that we never really lose anyone or anything or – perhaps most importantly – ourselves.

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was about seven, I started to write my own books. I never thought of myself as wanting to be a writer-I just was one.

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.