Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever

God doesn't give people burdens they can't handle.