He likes you, too." Finn repeated. "And don't tell me to shut up." "Shut up!" -Kingdom Keepers, Shell Game

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

I'm a big girl, Finn.

What do you care more about? The kids or your hair?

I'm still only half the writer I hope I will be.

Okay, so let's run faster.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.