"A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven."

"Many of my generation, the career captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels seasoned in that war , vowed that when our turn came to call the shots, we would not quietly acquiesce in halfhearted warfar…"

"Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of …"

"For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I…"

"Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger…"