Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?

It's amazing that something as simple as a kiss can overpower the worst of worries.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

Incredible. It never ceases to amaze Starkey how far society will go to protect the children it loves and to discard the ones it doesn’t.

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

Whoever invented the spork should be killed.

She smiles at them as they go by and continues to play, making it clear that this furnace of a place, full of planes that cannot fly, is more than it seems. It is a womb of redemption for every Unwind, and fora ll those who fought the Heartland War and lost - which was everybody.