I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

But words are more powerful than anything.

She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life,’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small.