Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.

Teasing's part of the fun that comes before kissing

She fell asleep, and it was a sleep as thin as the night clouds, dotted with dreams that came and went like the stars.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.