Somehow I had to turn the salted peanuts in the cigar box into petits fours.

“I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of …”

“Be in control of your piece, Jo. The minute it takes control of you, you’re dea…”

“We'd been trying to touch the sky from the bottom of the ocean. I realized that…”

“I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had b…”