Stasia Ward Kehoe quotes:

Life is a big story. Music is just one way to tell it, to realize how many tales all kinds of people share.

I calculate the breadth of Steven's shoulders, now wider than mine;watch him tear open the Blokus game he likes to play with me after school;count the hours between now and Dad coming home to take overand I am only a little afraidof the night.

The dusty library air is electric with secrets/ almost palpable in the thick quiet that bounces between/ Cal and those books and me