“ I am giving birth. I am midwife to myself. Now is a new life full of possibilities. I must be strong like a child. Patricia Robin Woodruff
“ It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a precedin… Edith Wharton
“ She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeli… Tom Perrotta
“ The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air.It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.Its clear tones re… Vera Nazarian
“ Secrets are foolish creatures, I have learned. No longer do I wish to play with fools. Jesikah Sundin
“ In her mind, the ground rumbled and split open revealing the edge into a dark abyss. The shadows were always calling to her. Laughing at her. The familiar strains of loneliness flared under their torm… Jesikah Sundin
“ How boys transitioned from bothersome pests to men who made her pulse skip a beat and her head swim in a flood of pleasurable sensations was beyond her. Perhaps this was the true definition of magic. Jesikah Sundin
“ He threw his hands to his eyes and hissed. Like the hiss of incinerating ashes. 'What is this bright, orange orb in the sky that mocks me with its warmth? Jesikah Sundin
