3.I've flown kites before and I know — sometimes they're gone forever, and sometimes they're just waiting in the middle of the road for you to rescue them. Kites can be lucky or they can be ornery. I've had both kinds, and a lucky kite is definitely worth chasing after.
4.Then I began to notice how wonderful the breeze smelled. It smelled like ... sunshine. Like sunshine and wild grass and pomegranates and rain! I couldn't stop breathing it in, filling my lungs again and again with the sweetest smell I'd ever known.
5.She's looking off into the distance and the wind is blowing her hair back like she's at the helm of a ship or something, sailing into the sun.
6. But if chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.
7.The boy still has a ways to go.
8.There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive.
9.It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.
10.“A painting is more than the sum of its parts, ” he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.