A Handful of Stars

Maybe when we see things all the time, we stop really looking at them. And it takes an artist, someone who can look past the ordinariness, to remind us how special they really are" -Lily

I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared." -Lily

Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere

That’s something we could learn from dogs, isn’t it? They don’t keep looking backward at what they’ve lost asking ‘why me?’ they just move on and find a new way to be happy again.

Giving up and letting go are two very different things. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage.

All she had to do was tell the truth. This would be easy. I should've known, though. Real truth is never easy" -Lily

It's scary to try something different when you don't know how it'll work out, but that's when the best things can happen. The things that surprise you and change you. Those things can make *you* different" -Salma

What I love about art is that anything is possible. Bees can be pink. Trees can be purple. It's like taking the world as it is and then swirling it around to show how it could be" -Salma

and Salma were upstairs cooking,” Mémère said. Hannah looked at Salma like she was sizing her up a little. It felt weird to have Salma and Hannah together

To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared.

That’s what I like about art. It lets me become more like myself, not more like everyone else.

Through the plastic wrap on top of the box, I showed Selma all the little five-pointed stars on top of each berry. A whole box full of little blue-black stars. “Pepere said that the early Wabanakis called blueberries ‘star berries.’ They believed the Great Spirit sent them down from the sky once when there was no other food to eat.

To do brave things you don't have to be hugely brave, you only have be a little bit braver than you are scared.

Sometimes understanding comes in little drops and other times it rushes in like the tide, rolling everything over as it comes.

Sometimes life is like a long road leading from one "if" to another.

I think art can take ordinary things and show them to you like it's the first time you've ever seen them. And you realize that even ordinary things aren't really ordinary at all" -Salma

At the beginning of summer it always feels like there's so much time ahead: whole empty calendar pages of sunshine, warm sea breezes, midnight thunderstorms, and running barefoot in the grass. Enough afternoons to do every single thing you wanted to do and even some days left over to do nothing at all. But somehow summer fills up and flies by" -Lily

Dogs always forgive you when they know you're sorry. And so do star friends" -Lily

...I wasn't sure if we'd ever be the same kind of friends we'd been when we were little. Maybe being two peas in a pod was over, but maybe we could be more like two wild blueberries: two of a kind, but different, too." -Lily

But that's the one thing about being blind. What you look like doesn't matter to Lucky. He sees you with his heart" -Lily

I like art because there are no wrong answers. It's all about how you see the world. So you can be completely yourself" -Salma

Different can be good. It makes you pay attention" -Dr. Katz