I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do.

We all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn’t have any.

Does fate ever play by the rules?

You'd think someone who'd been to medical school would be able to hear through a stethoscope that somebody was empty inside.

It makes Faith think of a hammock in their yard, a web of rope that she thought would unravel the first time she leaned back on it, but that managed to support her all the same.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.