Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.

At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that.

The things a man sees when he ain't got a gun.--Watson the Caretaker

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

Lover," she whispers, and closes her eyes. It falls upon her. Love is like dying.

Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.

Good books are for consideration after, too.