Sarah Miller quotes:

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late -- our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens.

Check it out," Gideon saysI prayed to god to send a sign that I wasn't going to get kicked out of school, and a plane flew overhead. And then another one."Molly put her hands on her hipsBehold the celestial event so incredible it happens every 34 seconds." Gid stares at her, uncomprehendingIt's called a flight path," She saysYour a moron."

We should be used to it, Tatiana reasonsThere have always been lines separating us from the rest of the world, whether they were satin ribbons or iron rails.