Amy Waldman

Sorrow can be a bully.

Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.

Perhaps this was the secret to being at peace: want nothing but what is given to you.

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

Religious speech is extreme, emotional, and motivational. It is anti-literal, relying on metaphor, allusion, and other rhetorical devices, and it assumes knowledge within a community of believers.

Tears filled Claire__ eyes but, as if they knew their place, didn__ leave.