I may not have a degree, but I certainly got an education.

I don't think we get a choice in who we fall for," Ian whispers. "I think we just do.

In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

A lie took two parties - the weaver of the tale and the sucker who so badly wanted to believe it.

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.