That meant I could come back whenever I could manage it. And she was telling me to go. She knew the decision was too big a load for me to carry by myself. She knew me through and through. She had eyes in the back of her heart.

[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.

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

I read.. because one life is not enough

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

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.