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What you are able to dream you are able to grow, she says to me. If you don't believe in it, it can never happen.

I wished to be forgiven. 'It was always so in the eyes of God,' Shirah told me.

I have wondered all my life what I am made of, if there is a straw inside of me, or a beating heart, or if I simply burned for all I did not have.

He dusted the dough with cumin and coriander and salt before he slid the loaves into the oven on flat wooden boards. Perhaps most important,

He could burn her up alive; he could do it in a minute flat, and that's not easy to forget.

He thought of Jesus as a great teacher, a rebel who refused to see the poor and disenfranchised mistreated.

They say the truest beauty is in the harshest land and that God can be found there by those with open eyes.

History is personal, Gwen understands that now. All you are seeing is what's before you, the rest is guesswork.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

They sealed this promise by hooking pinkies, the way they used to, long ago, when promises didn't hurt as much.

Over the years I had grown attached to it, as men grow attached to their miseries and their burdens.

Well, maybe that was fate. Maybe she was meant to be alone. She was a runner, and wasn't that the habit of a person who preferred to be on her own?

Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.

Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by.

I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.

You cannot dispute the ridiculous. You cannot argue reasonably with evil.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

That was when I came to understand that freaks of nature and ordinary people had no business being together.

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can," she told her sister. "I can do it with my eyes closed.

Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.

My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage. - Aunt Frances

Do you think your mother came back?" Shelby asks him.
"Definitely. She's a cardinal who lives in my backyard.

And so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

Love has nothing to do with time or space.

You lose people sometimes, you know. You don't expect to, but then it happens and you can't get them back." We

Don't cry while you are reading the book wait until you are done reading it.

Love wasn't rational; there was no proof that it even existed outside of people's imaginings.

Everyone knows a white blackbird is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of what it ought to be.

Perhaps in the cold my heart would freeze and I would care nothing for those I was forced to abandon.

I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

I would have drowned without you to watch over me ... I now understand there are a thousand ways to drown, and a thousand ways to rescue someone.

Real love, after all, was worth the price you paid, however briefly it might last.

She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened.

(roses) each one shivering with cool silver light.

My grief was cold. It was nothing to share. It was nothing to speak about, nothing to feel.

What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.

Mean people are meaningless.

Every step I took hurt, I walked on daggers, on hot blue fire. Not holding him was like not breathing, not being quite alive. As

Although my father had never been there, I came to believe I would someday see that city for him.

You will be amazed to find how easy it is to lie, even to those you love best.

Love is complicated, love can be hidden, love, above all else, is loyalty.

In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.

You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed.

No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.

I only had access to him when we were together in the library, and I loved them both -the library and my father- equally and without question.

When a star reaches for you, it is difficult to look away.

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.

love was never a regret.

Don't worry, I'm not afraid of words.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

Then let us be among those who hope that the future will be less cruel than the past.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

The day had begun, cool and clear and absolutely impossible to avoid

She wishes nightmares were all that kept her awake. She cannot tell which disturbs here more, the future or the past.

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

I wondered if all creatures were drawn to what was dangerous or if we merely wanted light at any cost and were willing to burn for our desires.

I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.

Sometimes movies really are the best medicine.

hand, I felt empty. They

I never once stopped to consider that what you are given can also be taken away.

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.

My mother, Abra, had taught me that all people are made from the same dust. When our days here are gone, all men and women enter the same garden.

Another world must surely exist somewhere one where she would be known in some deep way that was far beyond words.

Love was never a mistake,even when it wasn't returned.

She's beginning to wonder if perhaps she's haunting herself.

Ghosts are said to move in the corners of human sight.

They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us.

She had come to believe that if her father had wanted a docile daughter, he should never have allowed her access to the ocean.

You couldn't see love, or touch it, or taste it, yet it could destroy you and leave you in the dark, chasing after your own destiny.

If anything, love was like light, illuminating what no one would have ever guessed was there in the darkness.

In the human world you had to choose your loyalties carefully. You had to see through to someone's heart.

The priests were deferential, siding with Rome, and those who opposed them were said to be robbers and thugs, my father and his friends among

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

Once you possess something others do not, you are a target for the wicked.

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

If a ghost were to consider climbing in the window, or seeping through the plaster, he might think twice about facing Maria.

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

********** IF THE WOLFMAN had not disappeared from my life I would have made certain to question him further about

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

She said she wanted a man like that, someone who understood sorrow, not someone who caused it.

I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.

Nowadays, she doesn't even look in a mirror. She's afraid no one will be staring back at her.

Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

Men are men, with all their flaws, as we have ours, that's true, but the best among them manage to discover who we really are.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.

If she wanted to enter an otherworld, all she had to do was open a novel.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

The only way to understand a river is to jump into it.

I want the words you hold in your hand, lamplight in a jar.

He still wanted to believe that people could survive their misfortunes. He believed that was all anyone had.