It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

You can't avoid orphan stories, child. Every story is an orphan story. We are all orphaned sooner or later.

Win walked over to me. He held out his palm. In the middle of it was a single black sequin from the dress Scarlet had lent me. "You lost this," he said. I giggled, slightly embarrassed to be leaving bits of myself behind. "I'm shedding.

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. For the record, that was something Daddy used to say.

What were you like," I asked her. "we're you happy? Or were you smiling because they told you to?

But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it.