...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and people we've never met. We have stories we love to tell and stories we have never told anyone. The extent to which others know us is determined by the stories we choose to share. We extend a deep trust to someone when we say, "I'm going to tell you something I've never told anyone." Sharing stories creates trust because through stories we come to a recognition of how much we have in common.