“Are you sure were not dead?""I really fucking hope not.”

“I tell myself your spirits were down the day you wrote. You're fine and we're fine. I hope it's true.”

“When you feel someone else's pain and joy as powerfully as if it were your own, then you know you really loved them.”

“She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.”

“I know you are always finding ways to love me in spite of how horrible I am, I hope I haven't run out of chances.”

“She thought she would know when it happened. But now, as she looked around, she wondered if it was really like that at all. Maybe it happened in a million different ways, when you were thinking of it and you weren't. Maybe there was no gap, no jump, no chasm. You didn't forget yourself all at once. Maybe you just looked around one time or another and you thought, Hey. And there you were. ”

“She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.”