If you had grown up with me, this is one of the things I would have tried to teach you: Marry a man who loves you more than you love him. Because I have both now, and when it is the other way around, there is no spell in the world that can even out the balance.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.

But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

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