“She is everywhere and noplace
Like a breath or like a wind”

“My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea - like a Greek temple - and light, light, light everywhere!”

“She was also, by the standards of other people, lost. She would not see it like that. She knew where she was, it was just that everywhere else didn't.”

“Well, you know, your mom gets like this sometimes," Simon said. "Like when she breathes in or out.”

“Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.”

“She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die?
-Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.”

“His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.”

“She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.”

“She asks why I like her.
Might as well ask
Why I breathe.
Maybe tomorrow I won't
Breathe or like her
Anymore.
Maybe tomorrow the tides
Will stop.
Maybe tomorrow will bring
No more rainbows.
Maybe tomorrow
She will stop
Asking useless questions.”

“To by held above the earth and be brushed by the wind," she said,"it's like your heart has been kissed by beauty.”