And hope is like love...a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.
Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.
It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.
Mercy Watson is a pig. She lives with Mr. and Mrs. Watson, who are not pigs. I had that basic premise, but I couldn't make it work. I would come back to it, try it, see that I was failing, and put it aside.
Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is difficult. Life is wonderful.
I think that that's part of how people have responded to The Tiger Rising. It's what I call my dark child. It's gotten sandwiched in between two overachieving, tap-dance-performing kids - Winn-Dixie and Despereaux.