I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.

The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.

What life gives us, good or bad, we seldom deserve.

It seemed that the good people were always cleaning up the messes.

Nicole Baart has written a novel that satisfies on every level. Sleeping In Eden is a compelling mystery, a tragic love story, a perceptive consideration of the callous whim of circumstance and, perhaps most important, a beautiful piece of prose. I guarantee this is a book that will haunt you long after you've turned the last page.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.