There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

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.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'

The birds brought seeds & flowers & bits of brightly colored string & placed them in her hair while she slept so she would remember the wild joy of spring when she finally awoke.

These are little packets of light and you need to plant them early in the year and remember to mark where they were because lots of times they look like weeds in the beginning and it's not until later that you see how beautiful they really are.