How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.

I love and hate this place because it is full of words.

It's a lot easier, she realized, to be on the verge of something than to actually be it. This would still take time.

It's my heart that is tired. A thirteen-year-old heart shouldn't feel like this.

I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.

She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.

I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.