“After all she’d been through, it irked her that he thought he could just look at her and know who she was. She didn't even know who she was.”

“It’s just, sometimes lies look so much like the truth. And when you can’t tell between the two, how do you know which one will make you happy? Maybe the lie will make you happier. And if you’re happier with the lie, would you really want to know the truth?”

“She needed a break from worrying about what to say and how to act every second of the day.”

“It was such a light, freeing feeling to not base her life on someone else’s opinion of her.”

“Maybe the key to moving on was distancing herself from Wes. Not all the way. Just a little bit.Enough to let someone else in.”

“It’s weird how one moment can change everything. Forever.”

“He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...”