The Midnight Children

A found family is every bit as beautiful as a born family. Even more so, perhaps. Stories are about choices, after all, and to choose to be family is as wonderful a story as can be told.

There is a powerful difference between feeling apart and feeling a part. There is a world in that space.

When two lonely souls find each other, sometimes there is a reaching out.

The funny thing about a broken heart is that for something held so deep inside, it’s surprisingly hard to hide.

Sometimes, when a soul is very sad, it doesn’t really want to not be sad; it just wants to not be sad alone.

It’s all right to be afraid. It’s all right to be lonely. It’s all right to be sad. This is, after all, a world with darkness and fists and killing floors and cruel truths

They each got a hug, and they each gave one. Hugs are nice that way. When you give, you get. Like friendship.

If a soul chooses to do the right thing, for the right reasons, it nearly always turns out well for them in the end.

But the truth, sometimes, can be the cruelest thing of all.

Stories, after all, are about choices.

A found family is every bit as beautiful as a born family.

I’ll be your creep, Ravani Foster, if you’ll be my freak.

Someday. It’s a word that’s dressed up like hope, but is really sadness all the way down. It feels like a wish, but is almost always a surrender.

And determined is nearly always a very good thing to be.

Through the kitchen window, he saw the fireflies begin to blink between the trees outside. And as their floating lights flickered into life, so did an idea into his soul.

Sometimes a soul, when it sees the chance to have what it's always wanted, doesn't have the courage to seize it.