Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was."

She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.

The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

The past scampers like an alley cat through the present, leaving the paw prints of memories scattered helter-skelter.