Easter says that love is more powerful than death, bigger than the dark, bigger than cancer, bigger even than airport security lines. - Anne Lamott

Because for some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave.

...when humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.

After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.