Status Updates From The Orphan Band of Springdale

"...sometimes saying things that might be silly to your own mother is actually a perfectly reasonable thing to do."

"And they folded sheets together for a while, slapping the air out of them so the folds would stay crisp, so that this one small corner of the universe would be, at least in this one small way, orderly and rational."

"She sat up on her bed, feeling like someone doomed to having to be brave, which is not the same thing as actually feeling brave."

"It felt good to be finding the proper notes, to be shaping the air of the world into music, which is really what you do when you play the horn."