Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?

When she wanted to escape her life, she read books

She shrugged. "You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

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

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.