Orphan Train

May they always make beautiful music together

The things that matter stay with you, seep into your skin.

I’ve come to think that’s what heaven is—a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

But it was all right. It was enough.”

I learned long ago that loss is not only probable but inevitable. I know what it means to lose everything, to let go of one life and find another.

Test your limits. Learn what you can endure

So when she says it’s okay, what she means is that she knows she can survive just about anything

as if she assumes everything will go right, and when it doesn’t—which, of course, is pretty often—she is surprised and affronted.

m wall Molly can hear her foster parents talking about her in the living room, just beyond her door. “This is not what we signed up for,” Dina is saying. “If I’d known she had this many problems, I never would’ve agreed to it.”

“I know, I know.” Ralph’s voice is weary. He’s the one,

heaven is—a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on