A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

The scar, and her indifference to it, did something extraordinary for her, just as damage to some art object threw into relief how beautiful it had once been, tarnishing and tempering her face with the reminder of what humanity did to lovely things and how they bore it.

Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.