Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?' 'Sometimes.' 'So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.' But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

It's a miracle I was able to get out of the house today. It's a miracle I'm even wearing pants, a double miracle I remembered to wear shoes.

Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took

I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he is now.

I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire.