“Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.”

“At midnight the wind in the trees can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.”

“What people called the truth seemed worthless to her; what was it but a furtive, bruised story to convince yourself life was worth living.”

“What people read revealed so much about them that she considered our card catalog a treasure house of privileged secrets; each card contained the map of an individual’s soul.”

“Heart, soul, treasure, rain, sister, memory, knowledge, hope, will.”

“You are my armor and my sword, my faith and my treasure, everything I'm fighting for.”

“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.”