“He was just like summer, and she loved summer. If she had any wish, it would be to live a lifetime of summers.”

“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.”

“She had believed him to be hers, time and again, but still she could not stay the feeling that he might at any moment slip through her fingers.”

“She saw now that he was like an illusionist who captivated women with a little sleight of hand and once she had seen the mechanism it had lost all power for her.”

“Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.”

“Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enough to bury her alive.”

“She had had no idea what it would do to her seeing him in a suit.”