A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't..

Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair..

Percy climbed the first step, then the next, remembering the thousands of times she'd run through the door, in a hurry to get to the future, to whate….

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar..

Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flower….

Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another..

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in….

It didn't occur to him that she might have chosen to remain this way. That where he saw reserve and loneliness, Cassandra saw self-preservation and t….

She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside..