Hope is an amazing thing. I saw it in Emma, saw it with my own eyes.

Child,” she said placing her head to mine and her callused fingers on my cheek, “you can whip it and beat it senseless, you can drag it through the streets and spin on it, you...

If my life were still a movie, this is the part that would end up on the cutting room floor. We were all just fill-ins for a long-running soap opera. The actors changed, but the...

I am speaking from experience when I say that forgiveness offered – especially when so undeserved – cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less...

Forgiveness offered -especially when so undeserved – cuts chains off the human heart that no other power in any universe anywhere can rattle much less break….love did what hatred can not and never will.

When we’re down and the momentum is stacked against us. Those are the moments when we find out what we’re made of. When we learn to trust and lean on each other.

You know sometimes when I walk into your room with a flashlight or a candle?’ I nodded. ‘Well, love is like that. Light doesn’t have to announce it’s way into a room or ask the...

In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.

He traced a line in the dirt with his toe. ‘This is a battlefield. Has been since Cain killed Abel. And don’t let it get complicated. Gray it ain’t. It’s black and white. Good versus...

Back home, I went to my closet and pulled out the old engineer’s transit case stored there. When we were kids, Emma and I had found it in the attic, dusty and empty, and the...

Well…letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.

Reese, your books might not tell you this, so I will. Every heart has two parts, the part that pumps and the part that loves. If you’re going to spend your life fixing broken hearts,...

From out of your heart, you speak.”-Emma, When Crickets Cry

The books talked about it [the heart] as if it were a sump pump stuck down in the muck and mire of somebody’s backyard. Never in all my scientific reading did I encounter anything that...

O amor faz destas coisas. Nomeia o inominável e confere voz ao silêncio

But what I knew in my head stayed up there, swirling about the other ten zillion things I had retained. That knowledge informed my actions, what I did and how I did it.What Emma knew...

I watched her—the way her shoulders moved with the tilt of her head, how her smile lit up the six people around her, how her hair, tucked behind her ears, framed her face like baby’s...

Love is a choice. It’s a decision.’ She told us, ‘It flows into, through, and out of each person like a river. If you try to stop it, it’ll sneak around until It finds another...

The problem with a wish list was what it told you about the person who wrote it. If it’s honest, it’s a rock-bottom, barebones, clear shot all the way to someone’s soul.Hats can do the...

Termite, you’re young, and I’m not sure if you’re going to understand what I’m about to say, but here’s the nugget: Without the heart, nothing else matters. She could be the Goddess of Love, you...

I sat in that room and realized that you can cut off a finger, cut off a hand, even cut off a leg, but if you take a woman’s breast, you are cutting more than...

Never judge someone by their relatives.

He picked up one of Lorna’s roses and set it in my lap. “Here.” I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. “See what I mean? Thorns don’t stop you...