“A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.”

“The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.”

“I told you growing starts from the inside first, honey, and in that way, you've been growing like wildfire.”

“In his heart he knows first isn’t touching a door knob, or getting to sit in the front row seat by the window, or making it up to the road before everybody else. First is something deep down inside you that you know and feel and nobody can take away from you”

“Rowan knew it was now possible to look directly at Zandra, Zandra the Princess of Jupiter, the one he had loved all his life. He reached out to take her hand. True, he was covered all over with scars and scratches and stitches, but then, in a way, so was she. The end.”

“The whole place seemed wrapped in isolated autumn silence.”

“Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.”