Jade M. Sheldon: If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. & there is nothing more to it than that.
Jade M. Sheldon: I'm not that good at being a tourist because I'm always looking at the way the light shines in your hair or the way your dress opens to the wind & my favorite places in the world are places filled with you.
Jade M. Sheldon: "I was waiting for such a long time, she said. I thought you forgot. It's hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone."
Jade M. Sheldon: "Of course I hang on tight, she said. You can't believe the kind of stuff that happens when you let go."
Jade M. Sheldon: "She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful & life was so short."
Jade M. Sheldon: "Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life."
Jade M. Sheldon: Time stands still best in moments that look suspiciously like ordinary life.