Either things grow and change or they die.

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

Your understanding of a place changes the longer you stay; you discover more, and your own life gets woven into the fabric of the community.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.