She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

I know who you are in your heart,' Andres said. 'That's all that matters.' And that was it. That was the moment. Now I knew how I would feel if I ever lost him. That was how you knew love. My mother had told me that. All you had to do was imagine your life without the other person, and if the thought alone made you shiver, then you knew.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."

What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.