But gracious, it was beautiful, that glass. Clear and cool and smooth, and ever so faintly blue, like ice. Caroline lifted the top pane to the firelight, and the edges seemed to glow. She put a hand t...
Tried to look strong as she walked to the house. She knew she could not kid her
She were going to let her vexation flare outward, she would have done better to put her foot down with Charles than singe the girls. Then at least it would have served some purpose. Nor could she simp...
It was as if she believed the special things they’d so enjoyed together should not be enjoyed apart.
You may be afraid, but you may not let your fear chase you away from what must be done.
Why does everyone have to be so cool all the time? And also why do white people always have to act like black people to avoid looking like dorks?
Time, Caroline decided, could be trusted to measure the distance between meals, and nothing else. But a mile was always a mile, no matter how long it took to traverse. Days spent on the road were best...
Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their wings in my ears, making my skin prickle and crawl as tides of sickness wash me a...
How different it must feel to be a man: built solid through, with everything beneath the skin belonging solely to yourself. Did he ever envy what she could take into herself, how much she could contai...
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. - Matthew 7:7
Why doesn’t Sunday ever wait until tired?
How many miles had they come? Less than halfway, and already Caroline had the sense that a separation such as this could put more than miles between folks, could right this minute be working changes s...
It was not going she dreaded—only leaving.