The right thing and the easy thing are never the same.

Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast.

Her voice, unfolding like a tiny bright memory in the darkest, furthest corner of my mind.

Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian."Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens.

There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

Seventeen moons, seventeen years,Eyes where Dark or Light appears,Gold for yes and green for no, Seventeen the last to know.

We are given to the great, for great purpose, to great ends. We are given to the grave, for grave purposes, to grave ends.

There are more of us than you think.

Too much time will do that to you. Blur the edges between your memories and your imagination until everything feels like something you saw in a movie instead of your life.