my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't.

For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they've never done before. On this summersday, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.