• In those days, not so very long after the Great Depression there were people who had taken up wandering and didn't know how to stop - cut loose from their roots and their people - never stopping anywhere for very long. And then there were those who had come home from the first big war so shaken, so silent, that they didn't seem to know who they were any longer or where they belonged. (Pg 21)

• It took me a long time to free the remaining pictures from the walls. 

  That he had used tree sap suggested two things: He'd had nothing else to use, or he'd meant to stay here forever. 

  I cried over both answers. (Pg 286)

                                                                              ——Lauren Wolk