“She wondered which was worse—living your whole life staring at yourself or waiting your whole life for someone to stare back at you.”

“Marriage is like a fingerprint. Everyone's is different. ”

“One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.”

“ Alex moved closer to me, never taking his eyes from mine. “What if your eternity doesn’t start when you die?” he asked carefully. “What if your eternity has been going on since before you were born?”I stared at him with a blank face, wondering what drugs he was on. ”

“But what is love, and what is life, if you do not let yourself live?”

“I needed a whole heart once in my life. Is that so wrong?”

“He knew it even before he could fully articulate it: between East and West lay a terrain that needed to be charted by stories, fused by his new eyes and imagination, and he needed to tell those stories if he ever hoped to be whole again.”