When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.

This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can," he says, and I pull him to me.

You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, I’d canonize you.” “The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you!

Free the snow globes!

What happens if your choice is misguided, You must try to correct it But what if it’s too late? What if you can’t? Then you must find a way to live with it.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

One can never go back. One always has to move forward.