You say their stories, it is gift they give you.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

Laila remembered Mammy telling Babi once that she had married a man who had no convictions. Mammy didn't understand. She didn't understand that if she looked into a mirror, she would find the one unfailing conviction of his life looking right back at her.

People…shouldn’t be allowed to have new children if they’d already given away all their love to their old ones. It wasn’t fair.