Some fates are guaranteed, no matter who tries to intervene.

...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time

I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.

I thought of the bowl of water my mother taught me to look into. It was true, everything a person ever needed to know was right there in a single bowl small enough to fit in the palm of one hand.