She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've always chosen to believe the latter. After all, it's the librarian's one sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.

Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whatever was coming next, to this moment.

A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.