“Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.”

“There would always be an expletive in a New York sentence. Even from a judge. Soderberg was not fond of bad language, but he knew its value at the right time. A man on a tightrope, a hundred and ten stories in the air, can you possibly fucking believe it?”

“It was America, after all. The sort of place where you should be allowed to walk as high as you wanted. But what if you were the one walking underneath? What if the tightrope walker really had fallen? It was quite possible that he could have killed not just himself, but a dozen people below. Recklessness and freedom - how did they become a cocktail?”

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

“I suppose I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. the key is in the door and it can always be opened.”

“I guess I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. The key is in the door and it can always be opened.”

“There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.”