"It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride."
- Rebecca Wells
"There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. As {she} sat at the edge of {the lake}, memory blossoms floated unbounded, as though breathed, no words spoken. Like b..."
"...you do not have too many boogeymen for me. You have just the right number."
"Sidda can't help herself. She just loves books. Loves the way they feel, the way they smell, loves the black letters marching across the white pages..."
"At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brav..."
"Friends are supposed to act like harbor boats—let you know if you’re off course. But it ain’t always possible…"
"You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?"
"When the Deep Purple falls,Over sleepy garden walls, And the stars begin to flicker in the sky,Thru the mist of a memoryYou wander back to me,Breathing my name with a sigh.In the still of the night,On..."
"See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else."
"I live in an ocean of smell…"