To see the ocean once is to learn how to miss it. ~Mistress Coyle

Guessing a thing ain't knowing a thing.

Why can't we learn to live with how we are? And whatever anybody chooses is okay by the rest of us?

That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.

The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.

I was just trying to stay alive, looking for ways to find you, hoping you hadn't left me behind." "Never," I say. "Not never." He looks back up at me. "I'd never leave you neither." "You promise?" "Cross my heart, hope to die," he says, grinning shyly. "I promise, too," I say and I smile at him. "I ain't never leaving you, Todd Hewitt, not never again.

Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.