" Well…I only made a lumpy paperweight so far.”
“I still have my very first paperweight.”
“You do?”
“I had to stand on a box to reach in with the punty rod. But I did everything myself. It resembled a squashed apple, but my parents were so proud of my creation I thought it was the best paperweight in the world.”
“I guess I’ll keep mine.”
“It’ll be a good gauge of how much you improve. When you become frustrated when a piece cracks or turns out wrong, you can look back at that paperweight and see just how far you’ve come. "
― Maria V. Snyder , Storm Glass (Glass, #1)