Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

Perhaps my biggest takeaway was that modern medicine does not really have a handle on when and how to treat the chronic diseases of aging that will likely kill most of us.

And, once that’s done, winning the peace, as they say, will be much more problematic than winning the war.

My young friend here is using a dull knife when a sharp one would be better.

She could protect him, or she could do what was right. But she was sure now that she could not do both.

Be you man or machine, death awaits us all.

Where the ice and the fire met the ice melted, and in the melting waters life appeared: the likeness of a person bigger than worlds, huger than any giant there will be or has ever been. This was neither male, nor was it female, but was both at the same time. This creature was the ancestor of all the giants, and it called itself Ymir.

Live in a crisis long enough and it just becomes normal.

Old men always think they know better than everyone else, even when the world has long since changed around them.

When a shark offers up a pearl, be wary of its teeth. My father liked to tell me that when we were sailing, though I found this lesson most often applied on land.

The cult of the self prioritizes the needs of the individual while disregarding the needs of others.

The story of a century of life.

There was no way I was waking up every morning to face myself.

When Katie gets mixed up in a murder investigation, she relies on tarot cards, luck, and help from a cute local cop to help solve what happened to her friend Marley.

A tale of intrigue and secrets comes alive when six friends find themselves against an unknown enemy.

Lenna, a young Englishwoman, lives in Paris under the tutelage of Vaudeline D’Allaire - a powerful medium who contacts murder victims to discover the identity of their killers. Lenna travels with Vaudeline under the guise of continued mediumship training, but plans to secretly investigate her own sister, Evie’s, murder.

A murder mystery party with friends sparks a hidden set of skills for Pippa Fitz-Amobi in this prequel to A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder.

No dark fate determines the future. We do. Each day and each moment, we are able to create and re-create our lives and the very quality of human life on our planet. This is the power we wield.

Talk less, get more. This book is about learning how to engage with the world in ways that give us an advantage.

“Opposites are not always in opposition; the day and night are equals. One isn’t good and the other bad.”