When he speaks again, I can tell that he's smiling. "So I guess we saved each other.

Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a paycheck, certainly; not an idea, even; and not an escape. Actually, it is the opposite of an escape; it is a way back in, a way to enter and make sense of a world that occasionally seems harsh and terrible and mystifying. (From the "Author's Note" at the end).

...if you are one tardy away from missing out on a big competition, you should probably make your coffee at home.

That's the thing about faith. It works.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.

only when it rains. and sometimes, too, when i remember.