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People like us shouldn’t have kids, Goose. We’re too fucked-up. Fucked-up people fuck up their kids. You’d be as bad a mother as I’d be a father…
The stories write us, you see. We read something that moves us, touches us, speaks to us and it…it changes us.”
“I’ve simply come to the realization that the amount of sand in the top of my hourglass is far less than the sand in the bottom. I want to keep my promises before it runs out entirely. Especially my promise to you.”
“Sometimes the thing we want most in the world is the thing we’re most afraid of. And the thing we’re most afraid of is often the thing we most want. What do you want most in the world?”
“Why do only brave kids get their wishes granted?” she asked. “Because only brave children know that wishing is never enough. You have to try to make your own wishes come true.