It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

People had figured out all sorts of ways to make things seem different than they truly were.

You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?