Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

Forgiveness is spiritual. Punishment is legal," Leo says. "They're not mutually exclusive.

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

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?