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“In the years since, she had discovered the sacrament of life did not demand memory. Like a leaf that drank from the morning dew, you didn’t question the morning sunrise or the sweet taste on your mouth. You just drank.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Everything was sacred when nothing was taken for granted, she thinks ruefully.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“But he saw Naomi as the wind traveling over the field, always searching, never stopping, and never knowing that true piece is when you curl around one little piece of something. One little fern. One little frond. One person to love.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Hope springs eternal. Just remember: so does evil. Sometimes they are impossible to tell apart.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“The guards hate the priest. To them, men like the priest paper the sky with romantic tissue-paper legends, but down here below the earth, in this enchanted place, we know life cannot be contained on a slogan or a prayer tablet. We know that kindness rules with the fist and chains rule with a turn to the sky, that all humans require penance and without it we all seek punishment, over and over again, until the body and mind are satisfied and we die.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“If death row is a sharp punishment, life without parole can be an endless torture.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“She knelt over the grave, until her nose was touching the dirt. “When you are ready to inhabit a new skin,â€� she said, “we will be waiting for you.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“The window is the reason the death row inmates go to the visiting room to see their lawyers and investigators. The lawyers think their clients want to see them. No, they want to see the window.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Snow girl was glad she had left her own feelings behind.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Shame was a peculiar beast, Naomi knew. She suspected everyone had it: the dragon they wanted to slay. But for her it was different. Naomi wanted to bathe in it, to stand under its waterfall and come out blessed.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“Her courage frightens and amazes me. It make me hopeful for her. Is that what you call love? Is that what you call hope?”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“The lady hasn’t lost it yet—the sound of freedom. When she laughs, you can hear the wind in the trees and the splash of water hitting pavement. You can sense the gentle caress of rain on your face and how laughter sounds in the open air, all the things those of us in this dungeon can never feel.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“This is a place of true imagination.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“What if we are all capable of lying to ourselves? But the story didn’t bother Naomi. Instead it reassured her confirming that the stories we tell ourselves have more meaning than the facts. That doesn’t make them lies. Seeded with every myth was the emotional truth.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Butterfly Girl

“This is something I know: no matter how far you have run, no matter how long you have been lost, it is never too late to be found.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“It will be people like us that save the world, she said: those who have walked the side of sorrow and seen the dawn.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“The warden always seems to know which book to bring. When the sun is gunslinger blue, the warden brings a western. When rain slates against the towers and the world has gone hopeless with gray, it is Bible stories. When the halls ring with the cries of riot and the bars of my own cell rattle with pain, the warden drops a soft book on the floor, solace in its pages: the collected poems of Walt Whitman. And oh, my favorites, like the tastes of childhood. Every few months the warden passes me The White Dawn, and for a few precious days I traverse the open heavens on hard-packed moonlit snow and see the blue splashing arctic lights, and I fill my belly with frozen seal meat and laugh with my Inuit friends.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“If there are ever times when I would regret the choice York is making, it is times like these, when life feels like another page waiting to get turned.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Ideas are powerful things; we should take more care with them. I know there are some who would disagreeâ€� those who think ideas are like food they can taste and then spit out if they don’t like it. But ideas are stronger than that. You can get a taste of an idea inside you, and the next thing you know, it won’t leave. Until you do something about it.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“People had a drive to immortalize their past, even the evil stuff, like Abu Ghraib or the Holocaust. They liked to take pictures, keep journals, because they believed in what they were doing. No one, Naomi had learned, did evil without believing it was right at the time. Maybe this was why it was nearly impossible to talk them out of it?”
― Rene Denfeld, The Butterfly Girl

“she winds her way through gorgeous blue conifer forests, past glistening rivers and curves that give glimpses of heaven.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“And for the next long years of my life, I tried to remember only the reading, not the terrible things that happened to me as I came and went up and down the stairs. The library became my sanctuary. I loved the ways the precious stories took shape but always had room to be read again. I became fascinated with how writers did that. How did they make a story feel so complete and yet to open-ended? It was like painting a picture that changed each time you looked at it.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Anyway, time is more than counting days. On the outside, people think clocks tell them the time. They set an alarm for work and wake up to a blinking light that says six a.m. They look to an office wall to tell them if it is time to go home. The truth is, clocks don’t tell time. Time is measured in meaning. I better get up for work or It’s time to feed the baby. Or That was the year I got cancer or That is the day we celebrate your birthday. Or Remember when our father died or Let’s remember to plant turnips this spring. It is meaning that drives most people forward into time, and it is meaning that reminds them of the past, so they know where they are in the universe.”
― Rene Denfeld

“She is afraid, and yet she wants the priest to see inside her and accept the monsters that wrap around the secret, pure part of her--the part she managed to save, miraculously, that so many of us have lost. she knows the monsters are there and yet wants to be seen.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Sweet as sugar. And then he hardened. I can’t ’splain it another way. He was like sugar in a jar that hardens. And after a while you take it out, and it is one rock-solid lump”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“The moon, B had noticed, awakened the dawn, and so the two â€� like pale cousins â€� never saw each other. Even on the most hopeful of days the moon could only peep, from a distant sky, at the sun.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“[...] and every time she says the word, it breaks her heart into pieces that she has to pick up in her hands and shove back in her chest.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Stop thinking that you have to know everything to understand it.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Child Finder

“I sit on my narrow bunk and caress my long yellow toenails and stare at my walls.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted