Love isn’t only passion and joy. It’s also sacrifice.

- Cynthia Leitich Smith

That's when it happens. Maybe it was my argument. Maybe it was my scary zeal. Whatever the reason, as soon as Megan whistles, the crowd is on its fee…

- Cynthia Leitich Smith

Bridget adds, "Did Anyone bring a weapon?" "Confiscated," Zach admits for both of us. Vesper holds up her metal fingernail file. "They didn't take th…

- Cynthia Leitich Smith

Forget what you might have heard. There are no separate corps of angels for agnostics, atheists, Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Mormons, Budd…

- Cynthia Leitich Smith

I may be heaven-sent, but I'm not perfect.

- Cynthia Leitich Smith

Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to remember…

- Cynthia Leitich Smith

In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.

- Cynthia Leitich Smith

Men suck. - Not all men. Just the really good ones.

- Cynthia Leitich Smith

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

- Cynthia Leitich Smith