He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking ….

The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But la….

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

It's funny how things seem different, suddenly..

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement..

After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away ….

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

It wasn't right. He knew that, but it was like falling: once you started you couldn't stop until something stopped you..

Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into….

The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries a….

He wished he had some kind of X-ray vision for the human heart..

...so young, so lonely and naive, that she imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was w….

She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life..

I've been accused of trying too hard to rescue people.

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

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how..

Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know th….

But she had felt since childhod that her life would n ot be ordinary. A moment would come- she would know it when she saw it- and everything would ch….

Photography is all about secrets... The secrets we all have and will never tell..

I think that the whole child welfare system has to be totally taken apart and built up again. Have an agency just specifically for those follow-up ca….

Short on money, long on hope.