"Where Things Come Back" Quotes
A small town is rocked by the disappearance of a young boy and the unexpected reappearance of an extinct woodpecker.
young adult | 228 pages | Published in 2011
Quotes
The universe is always shifting. It's only ever a question of when.
If you didn't have hope, then you had nothing.
Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.
Maybe we're all just looking for someone to spend a little time with.
People are going to believe what they want to believe. No matter what you tell them.
There are moments when you can't believe something wonderful is happening. And there are moments when your entire consciousness is filled with knowing absolutely that something wonderful is happening.
People want to know who you are, and where you come from, and if you're really one of them.
Words, I think, are such unpredictable creatures. No gun, no sword, no army or king will ever be more powerful than a sentence. Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh.
It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.
It's not fate. It's just the way things come back around.
