That’s the trouble with memories: everything seems much more fantastical with a childhood lens to filter out the limitations of reality.

Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything

There are two times in a person's life when there is the possibility of pure happiness: in youth and in summer.

It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.

I will have clients rather than people who just give me orders

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

“And I,” declared the SawHorse, filling in an awkward pause, “am only remarkable because I can't help it.”

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.

I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up.