And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

It was a nice day, and I don't mean that it was sunny either. It was humid and not too cool, like winter was getting annoyed with itself and wanted it to be spring just as much as everyone else.