“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”

“Because everything requires energy,' she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. 'We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”

“Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?""Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”

“It is likely to make us think we are not caged. We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them.”

“Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself.”

“I made a wish on this tree years ago," Marco says."What did you wish for?" Bailey asks.Marco leans forward and whispers in Bailey's ear. "I wished for her.”

“I wished for her,” he says.”