“Some Laws were meant to be broken.”

“There are some mechanisms that are so—so broken that they cannot be repaired.”

“Comforting someone when they were stricken with loss was something else. It meant commitment. It meant caring. It meant you wanted to ease their pain, and at the same time you were thanking God that whatever the bad thing was that had happened, it hadn't happened to them.”

“If the marriage were valid, she'd be your sister-in-law.”

“Some secrets, she thought, were better told; some were better left the burden of the carrier, that they might not cause pain to others.”

“The Law is hard, but it is the Law.”

“There were some feelings you never forgot.”