The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

There is no such thing as a complete lack of order, only a design so vast it appears unrepetitive up close.

He had a thousand-year-old stare.

Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.