They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

I think this is every mother's worst nightmare - something dreadful happening to her child.

I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

You saved me," I said. Nathaniel put his hands on either side of my face. "I had to," he said. "So you could save me back.

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.