Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details.

The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas