I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.

Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known.

You're judging her by her literacy," Tara says. "You're a literacist." "You've made that up.

I wish everyone would stop crying, Tom. Uncle Joe would be so angry about it." But she's crying herself now. "He'd be so angry at us, Tom, for crying so much when all he did was laugh.

Don't believe in God. Love the world just the way it is.

You’re going to have to learn to ride a horse on your own, Phaedra', he said. 'It will make the journey faster.' 'The mule and I have an agreement.' 'The mule and you have similar traits.

She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it’s to tell her that something bad has happened.