“So youre a reader, My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.”

“Wait. Is a real, live adult person actually asking me details about the games I play? This is unheard of.”

“I cant believe I thought this was going to be boring. This is great!”

“At this moment, I know that the answer has to be yes. I am defeated. By my own father. How Darth Vader.”

“I turn back to the Archers, who dont look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?”

“Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.”

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

“Go outside. Dont tell anyone and dont bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day ou...”

“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”

“I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea.”

“Try being an indie author, a minority author, a woman, and a person with health issues in the world of traditional - that's where you are clearly 'different' and marginalized. I am all of that, yet...”

“For the girl without words, there is laughter for what is light, gesture for want, and tears for all that is dark. There is not much more. Names are nothing but extravagance.”

“Nature is increasingly the thematic focus of industrial heritage.”

“Stories were heirlooms in these parts.”

“You are one woman in an endless line of women who were chosen to love more passionately than others, be committed to justice more fervently than others, and seek our Makers higher expressions more ...”