“All around us, birds woke up the sky.”

“Somewhere, excitement waited for me like an uncut cake.”

“I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of my mind. I could hear a quieter version of them still, from their dark place, through all the ot...”

“But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.”

“I slept so long and hard that when my mother woke me the next morning I was a stranger to myself.”

“And that's when I felt the first wave of sorrow that came from keeping a new secret.”

“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.”

“If you want to brighten up a person's day.Give them a rainbow.”

“I can assure you that the life outside the front door is bright and full of life”

“once sailed neither the ship nor the shore ever remains the same again.”

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

“Waking up every cold morning is always a problem especially now it's raining daily but I thank God for Proverbs 24:33 which says "...A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands ...”

“Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.”

“She tilted her head back, breathing deeply. It was a stone gray day, the sea a bleak slate broken up by whitecaps, the sky pleated with thick ripples of cloud. A hard wind filled the sails, carryin...”