Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it..

David Arnold's writing is both heartfelt and hilarious. You will fall in love with Mim, even as her grand journey will keep you guessing. Mosquitolan….

I left the jutra to chop wood. I began my walk through the snow, five kilometers to the tree line. That's when I saw it. A tiny silver of gold appear….

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit..

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes..

I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the So….

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness..

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness..

Andrius, I'm...scared." He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear..

Decisions, they shape our destiny..

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own..

If I poured all the lies I had told into the Mississippi, the river would rise and flood the city..

Mrs. Rimas cried at the mention of the wafer and the traditional Christmas blessing. "God grant that we are all together again next year..

We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean..

Andrius turned. His eyes found mine. I'll see you he said. My face didn't wrinkle. I didn't utter a sound. But for the first time in months I cried. ….

It amazed me how some people could touch an instrument and create something so beautiful, and when others tried, like me, it just sounded like mangle….

Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both..

What was life asking of me? How could I respond when I didn't know the question?.

Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch..

We all laced together—a brothel madam, an English professor, a mute cook, a quadroon cabbie, and me, the girl carrying a bucket of lies and throwing ….

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong..