A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

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.

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

My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me.

You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

I love to swim, and I love being near water.

Short on money, long on hope