“all I feel sure of are questions.”

“Her smile was genuine-looking and later he would mull her question over and over in his head until it mushroomed into something larger.”

“he could feel his hope wilting.”

“Nothing that could fit on this page, or a hundred of these pages, would possibly accommodate all the things I should say to you, all the things you deserve to hear.”

“These were the beginnings of a new existence; Winkler could feel it gestating.”

“I used to think...that I had to be careful with how much I lived. As if life was a pocketful of coins. You only got so much and you didn't want to spend it all in one place...But now I know that life is the one thing in the world that never runs out. I might run out of mine, and you might run out of yours, but the world will never run out of life. And we're all very lucky to be part of something like that.”

“He could not look at his daughter without feeling his heart turn over.”