" There was something familiar in her energy. And yet I didn’t want to use that word, because it sounded too flaky and new-agey, and I didn’t even know if I believed that people had an energy. But there’s something in a person you can feel, so that you know a little bit about him before he even opens his mouth. I just wasn’t sure what to call it. "

― Catherine Ryan Hyde , The Language of Hoofbeats