“If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.”

“Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.”

“Some things you cannot wish away or think away. They become part of you when you remember them.”

“Being human means losing everything we love best in the world," she murmured as she released me. "But would you ask to be anything else?”

“We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as if they'd never walked and talked and burned, forgetting them was the real evil. That was the hole of darkness.”

“The sisters were glad to be together. They had the easy sort of relationship where they didn't have to speak to be understood.”

“Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still.”