“Like why Lena always thought of Ritz crackers when she shaved her legs. Who knew why? And did it even matter?”

“People said things they didn't mean all the time. Everybody else in the world seemed able to factor it in. But not Lena. Why did she believe the things people said? Why did she cling to them so literally? Why did she think she knew people when she clearly didn't? Why did she imagine that the world didn't change, when it did? Maybe she didn't change. She believed what people said and she stayed the same." (Lena, 211)”

“She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.”

“Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?”

“It matters not, for she did not need her eyes to tell her who she was. She knew it by your love for her.”

“Truth, justice...I always thought they were absolutes, like God. And Mom. And apple pie.But you could make apple pie from Ritz crackers. You could make cakes without sugar. We learned how to fake things, during the war.”