Wouldn’t want to miss a war, would I?

I like to read books one after another. Immerse myself in a book, and then immerse myself in the next book, and just keep going until there aren’t any more books left to swim in....

Your heart literally hurts when it’s breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

I shiver and Tom wakes. It’s light enough to see his eyes open.”Are you cold?” he says. “Baby, are you cold?”He turns so that his arms are around me again. Baby, are cold?-and the ball...

Clara Winter,” he said. “You are a word person and don’t ever forget it.”He was right. He knew. He could tell. It’s something that can be sensed. There’s a difference between word-people and non-word-people.

You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words...

What is the matter with these people, these people who won’t stop fighting, won’t stop hurting each other long enough to see that a body is a thing of beauty, is a miracle of rivers...

All it takes is a single moment.

The world should have stopped, but it didn’t. The world kept on going. How can the world just keep on going? An earthquake in India kills a thousand people, and the world keeps on going....

I’ll live in another world, then.

Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world’s great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.