“Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?”

“We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words”

“Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and other times we wake up and know what we have to do. I have to write...so I do.”

“Always there are walls, Rachael, she persisted. Walls that block our path. Too high, too hard. We stop to rest, to gather strength, and before we know it we have lived whole lives in their shade. In time, we cease to even see them there, casting their long shadows, blocking our path. We cease to yearn for the other side.”

“On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.”

“We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.”