“a push up or two . . . or twenty.”

“or dead is coincidental. Copyright 2010 by Karen Fraunfelder Cantwell Chapter”

“To be involved with books is to live at the heart of light.”

“I wanted to share the risks the digger in Afghanistan took every day. Whenever I could I joined patrols ‘outside the wire’, walking the same dusty tracks and fields as the ordinary soldiers. I did everything in my power to keep them alive, I failed. In that year I lost ten soldiers under my command, killed in action. I personally identified the remains of each of them, sending them home to their families. More than sixty of my soldiers were wounded, some horribly.”

“Gardeners, I think, dream bigger dreams than emperors.”

“I’ve sweated and grunted and pushed myself until I thought it would be easier to give up and die. '- Caroline”

“I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.”