Quotes from Ann Napolitano

own parents had wanted to leave every room he was in.

Julia decided to deep-clean the apartment.

rocks in your mother's garden, and that old man who sleeps by the train station. We're all interconnected, and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is.

She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love.

The dream was now in the air at risk of the elements beyond her grasp.

We are not contained between our hats and boots.

We're not separated from the world by our own edges." Charlie set down his beer glass, empty now, and rubbed his hand up and down his arm, as an example of one of his edges. "We're part of the sky, and the rocks in your mother's garden, and that old man who sleeps by the train station. We're all interconnected, and when you see that, you see how beautiful life is.

William thought of that sacrament now and felt bad for all the children who were forced to divide their ordinary lives into sins and not-sins so they would have something to say to a cassocked stranger.