I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. "Yes," she said. "But see how much of me is left?

Identification is not the same as knowing someone through and through.

I have always written about subjects that engage me - questions I can't answer myself. They apparently tend to be big moral and ethical issues!

It's choice that makes us human.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

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