- Rose: Art for me, has been a form of survival. Of escape. A way to be somewhere else, a way to remember things that I love and miss, a way to smell and touch things that are far away, a way to bring them close again. Each painting has been born of a desire, of a need, to remember to live, not just exist. And with art being a gift, I thank God.
- Katie: Mom says, unforgiveness is bad for everybody. She says, when you don't forgive someone, it's like holding them prisoner. She also says, when there's isn't forgiven, nobody's free. You have to guard your prisoner, and so the only way for you to be free is to free him.
- Katie: Six or seven years is a long time. People change a lot. In sevens years, I went from a baby who didn't even know not to poop on herself to this. I can walk, talk, go to school, read, and write.