“I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of the cage.”
“I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still.”
“I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if....if only there were no other people in the world.”
“I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out.”
“Cal's fingers tightened on mine, and my heart thumped in response. The library felt very quiet and very still around us. "You'll feel it.”
“Sometimes my life here felt like a cage where I could never escape the pain. At other times it felt like the only firm ground on earth”