“The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.”

“People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.”

“We seldom know what we're hearing when we hear something for the first time, but one thing is certain: we hear it as we will never hear it again. We return to the moment to experience it, I suppose, but we can never really find it, only its memory, the faintest imprint of what really was, what it meant.”

“All the lives we could live, all the people we would never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.”

“She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.”

“If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.”

“She had told Jaslyn once that everyone knows where they are from when they know where it is they want to be buried.”