Does anyone smell roasting meat?' said Razo, 'Oh, wait, it's just Geric's face.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

The three girls were sitting and lying beside her, holding one another, weeping, their arms and legs and hair tangled like the roots of close trees, sobs shaking them like leaves in a high wind.

...'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by... kissing him first.

I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.' Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're just a straw-brained scarecrow.

A heart is a heart in a child or a man.

My mama used to say, 'Are you sad? Then just wait a minute.