“You don't jump off a bridge by mistake.”

“When you don't know enough about life to know what you might have missed out on, your imagination plays wicked tricks on you.”

“looking off at the past as though it were a place one might still get to”

“She knew for certain there were all kinds of people who craved their youth, who would run like gazelles toward that fishhook of time, peeling off the years like old imagined skins.”

“Sometimes you need to be touched to know you're still alive.”

“I know how loud the seconds can sound as you stand by a window and peer out into the night.”

“This is what keeps ghosts locked to the earth, that sweet burning need for something they loved and gave up too soon.”