You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.

I still think there is a way to take all the mistakes that we've made as adults and put a little bit of a salve on them, a little bit of a fix on them, if we just are a little smarter in what we teach our kids.

With Marguerite, he wanted only time—more and more time—and he was granted it, nighttimes and daytimes and nighttimes again.

Once heaven is done with grandma, we'd like her back, thanks.

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.