It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice. But I am not frightened. I am joyous. Joyous with realization. For I cannot help but think what a lucky person I am. Imagine that in all the eons of time, in all the possible universes of which Dara speaks, of all the stars in the heavens, Ami and I came together for one brief and shining sliver of time. I stop. I think.Supposing in the grand infinity of this universe two particles of life, Ami and me, swirl endlessly like grains of sand in the oceans of the world -- how much of a chance is there for these two particles, these two grains of sand, to collide, to rest briefly together... at the same moment in time? That is what happened with Ami and me... this miracle of chance.

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Chance Death Gratitude Love Mother Space Time

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Poetry

Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. 'Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Funny Insult Nonsense Otulissa

Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?” asked a gray female pup. “Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he’s scared of the raghnaid?

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Bears Funny Motherhood Wolves

Dreams weigh nothing. - Marie Antoinette

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Dreams Kathryn Lasky Marie Antoinette Princess Versailles

We are only as noble as our actions prove us to be.

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Actions Noble

Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou.When had it all started, where will it end?We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different.Yet one.One and again.

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Life Unity

I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Shame

I will go to the Ring of Sacred Volcanoes, but I shall go not as a member of the MacHeath clan — no, I shall go as a free runner. I reject you. I deny you, I refuse and repudiate you as my clan.

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Denial Freedom Vow

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Guardians Of Ga Hoole Possible

I think the Lewis and Clark Expedition was the greatest undertaking in American History. I think landing a man on the moon pales next to it.

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Man American Moon

Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Hate Live Candy

I hate to tell you this, but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. It gave me the mental equivalent of one of those toothaches you get when you bite into something too sweet.

~ Kathryn Lasky

Kathryn Lasky Hate Me Sweet