This is how you hold onto your family. You hold them with open hands so they are free to find futures of their own. It's just that simple.

Grandma, how old is she?" "Oh I don't know." Grandma said. "You'd have to cut off her head and count the rings in her neck.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood.

Humor is anger that was sent to finishing school.

...they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

[A young adult novel] ends not with happily ever after, but at a new beginning, with the sense of a lot of life yet to be lived.