You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.