Status Updates From Shark Heart

She no longer sees life as a long, linear ladder with the beginning, middle, and end. Instead, she considers how life is like a spiraling trail up a mountain. Each circling lap represents a learning cycle, the same lesson at a slightly higher elevation.

Afterward, Wren realizes she herself is the mountain she’s been climbing all along.

Definitions of right and wrong, good and bad, light and dark become more nebulous and subjective in uncommon circumstances.

What remained strong in the deep, the hard times, was love as an effort, a doing, a conscious act of will.

“Oh, that’s a God thing.”

The atmospheric shimmering of greatest happiness was theirs to borrow, not keep.

She is one of those kids who is imperious to cold, hunger, and time.