Dani Harper

Education and assimilation were devastatingly effective at controlling a conquered people.

High to low, roof to floor, wall to wall, and door to door; Basement deep to sky above, fill this home with light and love.

To hold the Gift is to protect the balance in all things and to restore harmony. To hold the Gift is to comfort the mind and spirit, and to heal both heart and body. To hold the Gift is to be a bridge between worlds and to be a bearer of light.

Perhaps the so-called civilized world was a great noisy burden beneath all its wonders, and it was a relief to let go of it for a while.

Funny how being a grown-up didn__ make you any less glad to have a mom on the scene. Whether it was your own or someone else__ mother, it was like having the cavalry arrive.

Life is naught but battles big and small, and most of them unexpected.

Kind of like CSI investigating a social error__ere__ the corpse of the situation, what do you think killed it?__ith the hope of preventing further fatalities. Often as not, it boiled down to missed cues.

Everybody says you have to decide between the head and the heart, but that__ just so much bullshit. Your heart and your head don__ know a damn thing between them when it comes to other people. Your head can know facts about them, sure__ike a criminal record or a Purple Heart__ut that__ about it. And your heart only knows how it feels and what it wants, not what the other person is feeling . . .

Sometimes the universe conspires to give you what you really want, Liam. And it__ your job to let it.

If you hear voices, you__e a lunatic. If you write down what they say, you__e an author.

Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't.There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.

He sniffed her. The rubbery black nose inhaled deeply as it passed back and forth over her face, along her throat, her ears. Jeez, it was like being vacuumed-only most Hoovers didn't have the potential to bite her face off.