"All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's."
- Kate Atkinson
"The first one is always the hardest."
- Cassandra Clare
"Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothe..."
- Khaled Hosseini