“There ain't no sky,' said one [boy]. But what is it that ain't?' asked the other.”

“I remember when I saw Peter Pan when I was little. After all the other kids wanted to reenact the battles of the lost boys, pirates, and Indians, and all I could think about was the part where Peter Pan sits still while Wendy takes a sharp needle and, with concern and maybe love, sews his shadow onto his feet. And I wonder if the pain excited him as much as it excited me to watch. I hang here, the voices still bleeding in my ears. I watch my shadow, solid like a murdered body's outline, and I pray. Maybe one more slice, just one more, will sever it forever.”

“Life is pain and everyone dies, but true love lives forever.”

“Dreams spark the imagination like nothing else. We have perhaps our most creative thoughts in dreams.”

“Happiness, honor, and great estate,For those who patiently work and wait.”

“It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.”

“It's not that the grass is greener on the other side, it's that you can never be on both sides of the lawn at the same time.”