“Things can change in a day.”

“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.”

“Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.”

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”

“Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.”

“Although you know that one day you will die, you live as if you won't.”

“And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.”