Loss takes up inside of everything sooner or later and eats right through it.

You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.

I'll write this all down for you," I said. "I'll put it in a story." I don't know if that's what he wanted to ask me, but it's something everybody wants--for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

You can tell which girls lack mothers by the look of their hair.

I know you've run away - everybody gets the urge to do that some time - but sooner or later you'll want to go home.

the redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.

Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.