I really couldn't believe it. I mean at his age I didn't expect those kind of problems.

Don't ever hesitate to give someone else life. It's a big step, it really is. It's a very big step, but you really don't know how that can help someone.

I couldn't believe it. We have only been waiting just a couple of months and some people wait years.

I never had time to get married; I never had a spare minute. At my age I look back and think it would have been nice to have had a wife and one child who would look after me when I get older.

Almost all fruit trees have a mature age where they start having problems.

The past never quite disappeared, did it? Folks usually thought time moved forward, starting on the left and riding a right-pointing arrow into the future. Ruby didn't believe that. The future twisted uncertain, a shapeless dream, but the past - the past was set. It cast evidence behind it, photos and letters and bones, piling up in hidden places, waiting for the chance to spill out. An avalanche. A burial. The past consumed the future, always.