Kathleen Jeffrie Johnson

“Your eyes are everything. (Maybe why some people give up on talking.)”

“Take a plain-Jane rock and polish it, and you'll find a gem.”

“If you don’t deal with the past, the past deals with you.”

“Conner hadn’t liked leaving the gravesite with his father still not buried. But he’d learned from his grandmother’s funeral that you have to go. It’s expected. Nobody hangs around the cemetary. Grief—a little or a lot—is tucked into your pocket and carried away.”