“Go have a birthday. Before you blink and its all over.”

“Sometimes you don’t get to close one door before another opens. We’re not all given that luxury, for closure.”

“She suddenly realized how much she loved the rain; loved the way it seemed like the sky was purging something it held onto; the feeling of relief that settled over the earth the moment it passed. As if the universe, and all its tiny pieces, took one collective sigh and moved on to the next thing.”

“She stood before him on the porch now, as living, breathing proof that fortune had not tipped itself in his direction all those years ago.”

“Nothing happens here except the past in slow motion. We’re starting to go backwards, you and I.”

“Sometimes, we have to change the way we see things in order to see the way they truly are. We have to look at all the angles and cracks and crevices until we know what it is we’re looking at. And we can’t stop until we see it all!”

“Sometimes walls go up between friends and you can’t see the other side. And sometimes they come down. That’s just the way walls are, and they’re everywhere.”