"The very air they breathed was almost a juice."
- Rebecca Wells
"…the love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes."
"These are all I have. I do not have the wide, bright beacon of some solid old lighthouse, guiding ships safely home, past the jaggedrocks. I only have these little glimmers that flicker and then go ou..."
"But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs."
"Good Lord didn't mean for us to hate ourself. He made us to love ourself like He do, with wide open arms."
"As Sidda joined Vivi in staring out into the darkness of the fields, where hundreds of sunflowers grew, she thought: I will never fully know my mother, any more than I will ever know my father or Conn..."
"Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed."
"There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers."
"...Don't ever worry bout bein holy, babychild. Just keep your eyes wide open except when you sleep. Then let the Lord's mighty vision see you through the night."
"What does my smile look like now? Vivi wondered. Can you reclaim that free-girl smile, or is it like virginity- once you loose it, that's it?"