Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries.

You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you?

We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I'd never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.

I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do.

She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.