It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.

Once, this whole world had been hidden beneath a shallow sea.

You can't stop time. You can't capture light. You can only turn your face up and let it rain down.

She had died at age twelve, and by now she was nothing but the memory of love-- nothing, now, but bones.

After all these years, I feel so free. Who knows where I might fly?

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.

No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.

Away from the bright motion of the party, she carried her sadness like a dark stone clenched in her palm.

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.

It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.

Women laugh when they can, and weepe when they will.

But really, what else are you going to talk about in line at the liquor store? Childhood trauma seems like the natural choice, since it’s the reason why most of us are in line there to begin with.

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

In Judaism, there are 613 biblical commandments, and the Talmud says that the chief commandment of all is study.

Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people.

Did you do that? (Simone) Sometimes my powers work. Sometimes they don’t. Looks like this time they did. Yea, us. (Xypher)