“In a brief, surreal moment, she could see the young man he used to be in his smile.”

“For a brief moment, the rusted steel beams above her sparkled like stars.”

“She smiled, not because she felt confident that she could think of a solution, but for the gratitude that she wasn’t quite so alone in her pursuit.”

“What a world, she thought, where you could at one moment be under a cloud and the next, right in the heart of it; and then, in another moment, soaring high above them all.”

“She looked over at her grandmother, smiling in her sleep from what she hoped was a dream about George Bailey and the angel that would eventually save him.”

“This was the place where someone had led her, only she could not remember who and could not remember when. Just that this was where she was now.”

“She didn’t quite know how to translate faces; so she wondered about Jerry, but that’s all she could do.”