“I couldn't fathom it myself, but I guessed that happy endings came in all shapes and sizes.”

“I began to realize how hard it was to separate all the voices to hear the single, strong one that came just from me." —Mibs Beaumont”

“If only my savvy worked in reverse, I thought again- and not for the last time. If only I could draw a smiling sun on the back of my hand, then everyone around me could know exactly how I felt, exactly how happy I was at that perfect moment.”

“I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.”

“You can't get rid of a part that makes you you and be happy.”

“But as I grew up, I began to understand that a savvy is just a know-how of a different sort.”

“In most ways, Mibs, we Beaumonts are just like other people...We get born, and sometime later we die. And in between, we're happy and sad, we feel love and we feel fear, we eat and we sleep and we hurt like everyone else.—Momma”