“You know what’s really wonderful about those fireflies?” he said, finally, as if they had been having a whole other conversation. “Sure, they live for just a few weeks. Not much at all in the grand scheme of things. But while they’re there, the beauty of them, well, it takes your breath away.” He ran a thumb over the ridge of her knuckles. “You get to see the world in a whole new way. And then you have that beautiful picture burned onto the inside of your head. To carry it wherever you go. And never forget it.”
― The Giver of Stars
― The Giver of Stars
“Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.”
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“That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them.”
― The Giver of Stars
― The Giver of Stars
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