If it's true that every seven years each cell in your body dies and is replaced, then I have truly inherited my life from a dead man; and the misdeeds of those times have been forgiven, and are buried with his bones.

Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled.