Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

The more you feel, the stronger you are.

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

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.

I read everything of Ray Bradbury when I was 12 or 13, and I think that's the most effective time to read Bradbury. He built such a moral world, where you have to make decisions and grow up.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.