“What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?”

“...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.”

“Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.”

“Phoebe realized how very wrong she’d been about this house, this family. It was far darker, more dangerous than the places she’d grown up in. In the dingy little apartments her mother rented, everything was out in the open. Their lives were dirty and squalid, but they didn’t pretend to be anything else. Here, things seemed so normal, so perfect, but it was all a deception.”

“Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.”

“Lisa smiled. 'You know how sometimes, you catch the faintest hint of movement in the corner of your eye, then you blink and it's gone? That's them.”

“Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.”