“He who jumps may fall, but he may also fly.It’s time to jump.”

“He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.”

“Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.”

“The sparrows jumped before they knew how to fly, and they learned to fly only because they had jumped”

“I start to back away before I do something wildly inappropriate, like jump on top of him.”

“The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.”

“The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you reminded me of. You were jumping up, and you were yelling something, and your hair was coming loose from your ponytail, and you were so fast..." He shakes his head. "Just a flash, and then you were gone, Exactly like a bird.”