"If you are lucky enough to grow up the way I did, you have plenty of good things to remember."
Chap. 1, p. 7

"Some broken things you can't mend. Some you have to put together very slowly, piece by fragile piece, waiting until the last bit of work is strong before you try the next. It takes a lot of patience."
Chap. 3, p. 74

"For me, there was worse to come. I should have been prepared, but I was not."
Chap. 3, p. 112

"These trees held in their hearts the tale of our growing years, and now they were to witness a mystery greater than any in our experience."
Chap. 4, p. 127

"'Until we return,' said Cormack, or maybe it was someone else, and then it was really dawn, and there was a sound of rushing wind, and swirling waters, and beating wings, and I ran blinded by tears back to...