“I knew I was different, but that didn’t make me as human as anyone, or was I something else?”

“Instead of dying, instead of slowly disappearing until only a broken body remained, what happened was quite the opposite – my body began to repair itself.”

“I knew I was different, but that didn’t make me as human as abyine, or was I something else?”

“She could tell when a woman was pregnant — even before the woman herself might know — just from the way she smelled: a combination of brown sugar and Stargazer lilies. Happiness had a pungent scent, like the sourest lime or lemon. Broken hearts smelled surprisingly sweet. Sadness filled the air with a salty, sea-like redolence; death smelled like sadness.”

“Children betrayed their parents by becoming their own people.”

“Just because love don’t look the way you think it should, don’t mean you don’t have it.”

“Love makes us such fools.”