Many times I have learned that, you never judge a book by its cover. Like people, it is the inside that counts.

But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see the stars. The world felt as high as the depthless night sky and deeper than she could know. She understood, suddenly and keenly, that she was too small to run away, and she sat on the damp ground and cried.

Here's the thing about home: you can create it most anywhere, as long as you gather your people around you.

Uge, save me from the sauce of their loveyness-raso Forest Born

... until Miri could not help it any longer and she laughed out loud. The sound broke the game. Peder looked at her. He reached out, and she thought he meant to grab her straw or perhaps yank her hair as he used to when they were little. But her put his hand behind her head and, leaning forward, pulled her face to his. He kissed her. One long, slow kiss.

Ani felt a stirring, a hope, a winged thing waking up in her chest and brushing her heart with it's feathers.

My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.