Well, it is true. Sometimes avoiding something can give it more and more meaning rather than less and less.

She was surprised at how deflating his presence was.

You know, for a while there we kept horses for the boys, and we had a mare that had broken down. Couldn’t ride it… You could feed it and brush it and water it and...

It’s like picking the place you’re going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blindfold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart.’ Sullenly Judith said,...