The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention….

I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out cardboard co….

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes..

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told..

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven..

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same..

...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place..