Bruce Coville:
(Syracuse (New York), 16 May 1950).
American author of children’s and young adult books. He was born in Syracuse, New York State, and has continued to live there except when he went to study at Duke University in New York.
Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people — they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.