“It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly.”

“My intent was to write a story that would become a true legend, so it was important to me to present Holly Claus’s story as a legend, a fantasy that would become a part of the culture…a tradition…a classic. I want Holly’s story to endure for generations."
— Brittney Ryan”

“One of the bravest thing a child can do is dream, and believe it is truly possible. Brittney Ryan”

“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”

“I realize that sometimes death comes before you expect it. That while we are rarely prepared for our friends, family and loved ones to die, we are never prepared for our own deaths. Never prepared to reconcile our own regrets.”

“Reading is my coffee!”

“We are our own memory-keepers, and we have failed ourselves.”