“He would pray...for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.”

“Why isn’t everyone praying all the time? Who cares why everyone isn’t praying all the time – you pray all the time.”

“I try to imagine keeping something like that a secret for my whole life. It would be like always wearing a mask over your face, which everyone believed was the real you. You would be the only person who knew it wasn't--and who knew that you could never take it off.”

“Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline and vocation to which everyone is called.”

“Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”

“A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.”