The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.

You don't make peace only with G-d. You make it with people. Sin isn't global. It's personal. If you do wrong to someone, the only way to fix that is to go to that same person and do right by him.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

No child really chooses his religion; it is just the luck of the draw which blanket of beliefs you are wrapped in.

Traveling is all very well and good as long as you knew there is a place or person you can call home

The question I hate the most is "How did you DO it - write novels and raise your children simultaneously!" I mean, do MALE authors get asked that??