For this much is true: With the grief-stricken, I can almost communicate. It’s the complacent who miss every sign, ignore every signal. And the denizens of the newsroom sometimes seem the most complacent of all. They think reporting the news matters more than intervening in it. I understand them, for I used to think that way too. But I learned: There is no such thing as objectivity. You cannot witness something without being a part of it yourself.

In addition to our travels, Angie and I spent years researching every aspect of Turkey we could think of...We needed to become experts so that each line of our story rings true. Our dream was to write a book that takes our readers on a romantic journey, not a book that fills one's head with so much history you don't really remember any of it.

For Lynn, science or perhaps inquiry was her instrument and she played it with the unrestrained passion of a virtuoso and the ability to care little about what people thought of her as she did exactly what she loved with her life. Like an animated Dickinson poem, she was neither tentative nor self-conscious. She would daringly move toward a vanishing point of an accepted convention, thus causing it to be redefined. Gould was like that as well. They were each more verb than noun.

With the massive popularity of series like Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, it's clear that as wondrous and strange as the world of fantasy is, we have no problems imagining ourselves in it... But Dr. Nicholas Perkins, curator of the Bodleian Library’s exhibition “The Romance of the Middle Ages,” knows that these stories are not just fantasy—they tell us something essential about ourselves.

What veteran traveler hasn’t felt a tingle – whether of elation, anxiety, or expectancy – from strolling down a crowded street with the knowledge that, at that moment, there was not another soul on earth who knew one’s exact whereabouts?

It is a shocking subject, unbelievable to comprehend - one of the shadow sides of a culture. Yet, it is a reality for some uneducated, tribal families. When first reading about the KAMER organization, I knew we had to go there and talk to these women. You cannot imagine how strong these women are, how they have devoted their lives to create change.

We leave all sins behind in the pilgrimage. We know it's not our land anymore. We cross a sea of dangers...

...I kissed the time right in the second I kissed the past in the memories I kissed the future in the presentiment I kissed the present right here...