She's not a baby anymore, my love, said Tarik softly. That's what we have to accept, you and I.

I can't wring blood from a stone.

Coincidence is the exception, not the rule.

The arrogance of these people!

Death wasn't a movie where the pretty star faded away with a touch of pale makeup and every hair in place.

But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away.

You know what America is-they're all like spoiled children. Anything goes, isn't that what they say?

She realized that the photograph had caused his reaction. It came to her almost as a revelation. Think of it: a photographer presses a button. A few hours later and half a world away, some dots of ink on a news print showed what he had seen-and had the power to touch peoples emotions, perhaps to change their way of thinking.

I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead.

..it just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past.