It was a sad loss, this illusion of importance, a humbling blow.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

some things are better off back in the past. Where they belong.