My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.