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

“Perhaps this was how the sparrows did it too; perhaps they were looking so hard at the peaks and tips of the new rooftops coated with dew, and the vast new horizon, that they only forgot that they did not know how to fly until they were already in midair.”

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

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

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

“Mice? Fine. Flying mice? Not so fine.”

“The details that are my life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced.”