“Mrs. Turton says that if you lived to be eighty years old, your heart would beat three billion times. I was thinking about that, trying to imagine a number that large. Three billion. Count back three billion hours, and modern… — Ali Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Like a ghost heart—a heart you can see right through, right into some other world where everything you ever lost has gone to hide.” — Ali Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Then, with a start, I understand something. It is music. I am certain--I mean, I just know--that all these different species are playing together,… — Ali Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Did you know that the light from our nearest star takes four years to reach us? Which means when we see it- when we… — Ali Benjamin Copy Share Image
“What is it about you that makes you able to love creatures that no one else can?” — Ali Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The staying and not-knowing and being afraid: That was worse than anything else that might have happened.” — Ali Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Turton says that if you lived to be eighty years old, your heart would beat three billion times. I was thinking about that,… — Ali Benjamin Copy Share Image
