The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time and its only renewal came from giving it away.

The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.

You missed a lot of heartache, sure. But David, you missed a lot of joy.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

All that sunny afternoon, traveling north and east, Caroline believed absolutely in the future. And why not? For if the worst had already happened to them in the eyes of the world, then surely, surely, it was the worst that they left behind them now.