Seize what's been handed you. Make smart decisions. Make decisions because life is a temporary situation.

Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.” If only she knew.

Can you giggle while racing for your life and protecting a six-year-old? I can.

Why do things this beautiful make me want to cry?" I asked Michael as I leaned into him. It was an unguarded question, one I'd never have asked of Hugh. "I don't know," said Michael. "Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.

But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works

Six Seconds should be Rick Mofina's breakout thriller. It moves like a tornado.

I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my mutant-birdkid-freak package.