“I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go?”

“I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.”

“My emotions swirl like leaves caught in the breath of a dust devil, and the only thing I can seem to hold onto is the anger.”

“My life's a tangle of past and present, like two separate puzzles with their pieces tumbled together. Nothing fits.”

“Truth is in our blood. It is the essennce of our being. It is the best part of us, the core of what makes us human. It is our soul, our fundamental genetic beauty, and our spirit. We were created p...”

“She knew, now, why her father had not spoken of the last war, nor Alistair of his. It was hardly fair on the living.”

“How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there w...”