“Like King Midas, I am left with nothingbut this unreasonable hopethat, somehow, my strange lifeand my lost familywill returnto normal. ”

“I feel like...the boy lost somewherebetween the torment of memoryand a few fragile shardsof hope.”

“I feel the heaviness of nightmareseven though I am awake.How weary I am, how sleeplessand hopeless—there is no escapefrom the tormentof wishes.”

“I have spent all my years accepting sad truths.—Quebrado”

“My heart drums with gratitude.My thoughts singwith hope.”

“My mind soarsand whirlsin a danceof wild fearand graceful hope.”

“If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our mindsleft behindin battle.”