For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

Well, in Angel of Hope, Amber ends up going in her sister's stead. The focus of that book and the next one coming out, Angel of Love, is how she finds her way out of her sister's shadow and into herself. That's really what those two novels are based on.

You want to attach emotionally.

hanging out the window, Amber blew her a kiss. a lump the size of a fist clogged Heather's throat, while a breeze from th sea pushed her thick hair away from her face. tears trickled unchecked down her cheeks.

On TV, stories and events are finalized in 30 or 60 minutes, or neatly tied up after a season or two. The best stories are the ones that force us to come to our own conclusions and to explain why we believe in our conclusions.

We all didn't come into to the world at the same time so it makes sense that we don't leave it at the same time.

I think that hurting gives us a way to measure being happy. How can you know one without knowing the other.