“Winter's my favorite...The best parts are the coats and sweaters. Hugging all the warmth back in.”

“She did not know why the heat felt so heavy in that house, why all of a sudden it felt so much less like warmth than she remembered.”

“Parker stared at the bare branches along Saint Marks Place as they swayed with the wind, reaching for one another, and longed for the warmth of a million little leaves and their multicolored smiles.”

“I used to build things, maintain them and what-not. Sometimes, we’d take things apart completely just to get a good look at the thing on the inside. Then, put it all back together...Now, I’m lucky if I can build a complete sentence.”

“Grief can put all kinds of regret into focus.”

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

“I can’t even think about words because the sunset stole them all.”