Eve

True love requires open hands. Without the power to say no, love never will be real, just illusion.

Clinical detachment is a myth, often a cover for cowardice. It is so much more arduous and risky to be authentic and present, and immeasurably more rewarding. Healers heal themselves while healing others.

There is a grief that only a woman who cannot bear a child can apprehend. To make such a choice is one thing, but to have the wonder of it taken from you--that is a wound too deep to even bleed.

"I'll have you know," said Gerald with a little chuckle, "panicking doesn't help, although it does occupy large amounts of time."

Coarse white hair formed a woven crown around her face, lined and creased by countless years, a masterpiece of sculpted joy and sorrow.