What she couldn't put into word was what had happened in between to change her from one person into the other

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we're the ones who securely tied the knot.

How could I not have seen this coming, when I looked into your eyes and vowed to be with you forever?

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

Since I was five, I've known that I was adopted, which is a politically correct term for being clueless about one's own origins.

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.