So with my luck, I'll never make it in time to save the boy in the forest because my hair will have snagged on a tree branch a mile back.

- Cynthia Hand

Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one partic…

- Cynthia Hand

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

- Cynthia Hand

I’ve learned that a storm isn’t always just bad weather, and a fire can be the start of something. I’ve found out that there are a lot more shades of…

- Cynthia Hand

I feel like Cinderella sitting in the middle of the road with a pumpkin and a couple of mice, while Prince Charming charges off to rescue some other …

- Cynthia Hand

Have you ever been to a place you're supposed to love, but all you can think about is home?

- Cynthia Hand

Clara," he says, my name sounding different somehow when it passes through his lips. "I'll miss you.

- Cynthia Hand

We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

- Cynthia Hand

Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing or failing. There's only u…

- Cynthia Hand