Sometimes Webb believed that he would never experience a better feeling than when he was looking at her, would never see anything or anybody bursting with more life and spirit. Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage area in his soul. Just in case.

About my first memory, sitting on the shoulders of a giant who I know can only be my father. Of touching the sky. Of lying between two people who read me stories of wild things and journeys with dragons, the soft hum of their voices speaking of love and serenity. See, I remember love.

That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

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

A blind man can see what she feels for you and you for her. Your souls are not merely entwined; they are fused.

How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?

He came third in the state for woodwork,” Francesca explains. “We actually had to be proud of him for a whole week. Tough times.