“Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.”

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

“Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow. ”

“Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.”

“That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.”

“Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.”

“I didn’t want to be prideful anymore. I wanted to be as hard as and brittle as the stones I carted into the woods. Stones that could not feel or cry or see. I wished not to feel anything at all. In no time, what I wished for, I became.”