140 Quotes by Rebecca Stead

I wish I could see what would have hapenned if I hadn’t told. You told me once that every time a decision is made, the universe splits into two. So now there’s a universe in which I kept my mouth shut. But I can’t see what it looks like.

Thirteen broken bones and a punctured lung. You must have been put on this earth for a reason, little girl, to have survived.

Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don’t have to depend on the wind anymore. She doesn’t mean that it’s a real veil. And it isn’t about magic, or some idea that maybe God is looking right at you, or an angel is sitting next to you, or anything like that. Mom doesn’t think in those ways. It’s just her way of saying that most of the time, people get distracted by little stuff and ignore the big stuff.

When she was eight years old, Bridget Barsamian woke up in a hospital, where a doctor told her she shouldn’t be alive.

Why don’t you and Patrick actually talk to each other?” Tab said. Em looked up. “Are you demented? And say what?