But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

It was funny how dad was more honest in a book that anyone in the world could pick up and read than he could be talking to me. Or maybe it was sad. One or the other. Sometimes it’s hard to tell.

I know you did, lass. You're the toughest girl I know." "'Lass'? Where did that come from?" "I don't know. I just felt the urge to call you that.

It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.