When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.

A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.

Doctors put a wall up between themselves and their patients; nurses broke it down.

Someone once told me that when you give birth to a daughter, you've just met the person whose hand you'll be holding the day you die.

What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

I think that ordinary people who are placed in extraordinary circumstances find themselves pushed beyond their limits, and learn new truths about themselves.