It's hard to give up the being together with someone.

People do things that turn out badly, often for the most benevolent of reasons.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

There is something about that moment, when literature becomes accessible, and a door of the world opens.

We live in times that are in many ways ambiguous. Maybe that's why kids want precision in what they read - they don't like that moral ambiguity.