She looked like she wanted to take her right up to the…

“Keep your eyes on the future, because that's where the answers are. It's where the hope is.”

— Holly Cupala

“I started to sway Lexi again when I realized she was quiet. Waiting. Both of us paused on the cusp of the unknown. I…

— Holly Cupala

“If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?”

— Holly Cupala

“We're all family--the only family we've got. It doesn't have to be blood.”

— Holly Cupala

“ASHES. He had reduced me to ashes. And now I would rise.”

— Holly Cupala

“It's the grit that makes the pearl.”

— Holly Cupala

“Maybe that's why he watched over all of us--because of the ones he couldn't protect, he took care of the ones he could.”

— Holly Cupala

“At home, they'd clipped my wings and then caged me so I couldn't fall. Here, they bandaged one another's broken wings, helped each other…

— Holly Cupala

“I thought of Shelley in the hospital, how she said sometimes sadness only looked like anger and judgment. Maybe fear did too.”

— Holly Cupala

“I thought of what pride would look like, a jowly old guy in a smoking jacket. Vanity was a tall, beautiful woman with a…

— Holly Cupala

“Under the bridge, traffic above us and coats around us, hearts thudding with the steady perfection of this moment, I thought of every word…

— Holly Cupala

“When the worst happens and you still survive, it sets you free from fear.”

— Holly Cupala

“Ask no questions, I tell no lies.”

— Holly Cupala