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

- 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

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

There are no coincidences. Just miracles by the boatload.

- Clare Vanderpool

They call themselves the Ku Klux Klan and they hate pretty much everyone who isn't like them. If you have the wrong color, religion, or birthplace, t…

- 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

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

Who would dream that one can love without being crushed under the weight of it?

- Clare Vanderpool