Memories were like sunshine. They warmed you up and left a pleasant glow, but you couldn't hold them.

- Clare Vanderpool

Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hu…

- Clare Vanderpool

There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload.

- Clare Vanderpool

...the person you encounter is often more than the person you see.

- Clare Vanderpool

I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.

- Clare Vanderpool

This was a land of lost souls. Human beings who had weathered great storms in life, had suffered unspeakable loss, had been put to painful tests of e…

- Clare Vanderpool

If there is such a thing as a universal--and I wasn't ready to throw all of mine out the window--it's that there is power in a story. And if someone …

- Clare Vanderpool

He could hear trhe voices, the whispers, the sighs, of these souls who were unable to let go of their burdens. ... Pi understood this need to hold on…

- Clare Vanderpool

Finding your way doesn't mean you always know where you're going. It's knowing how to find your way back home that's important.

- Clare Vanderpool