I shot you, all right," he said, "and you lost something, but you gained something as well. You just don't know it yet. I gained something, too." What?" I got to keep my promise. I didn't leave you behind.

He did not know that the child who had asked for yesterday was now seeking to own tomorrow.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

You have to work at creating your own culture.

Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?