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"And if you see yourself in these pages, I want to tell you what I wish someone had told me. You are exactly the way you were meant to be, and you are the hero of your own story." - Housman

"This story is, above all, a work of fiction. Though I tried to stay faithful to the facts that are known about the Gonzales family, as well as to those that scholars have deemed most likely, for the sake of a more coherent narrative I did take liberties with history. In places, time lines have been blurred and historical sites, and even people, combined. The song that Catherine sings is a modified translation of a traditional Italian lullaby. Animal-husband tales have appeared in cultures all over the world for centuries upon centuries. One� Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve’s The Beauty and the Beast� has spawned countless variations. Whether the historical protagonists in this book might have been the inspiration for Villeneuve’s story is� like so much else about their lives� a matter of conjecture, though one that sparked my imagination." - Molly Greeley

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"So that we encourage and bolster the world’s hunger to thrive. And not just because that would benefit us, although it certainly would, but because other life-forms have as much right to flourish as we do and don’t exist for our use." - Kristin Ohlson

"The whole point of our evolution, it seems to me, is for us to find a way to fit back into the world as it is, rather than try to remake the world to fit us." - Brian Doyle