...she wonders if she has something other people don't. Intuition or hope -- she wouldn't know what to call it.

“...a pretty little minnow...cool as rain, blue as heaven...”

“What did you see?' he asked then.Nothing,' I told him. 'Because nothing is what…”

“Fourth time's the charm," she says to people who ask her what the secret of a h…”

“Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; …”