“Is one changing all the time, then?' she asks. 'Am I changing - without knowing it?”

“Some days you wake up and feel quite certain that something is going to happen and it generally doesn't, and when things are really going to happen it never feels like it a bit.”

“Supposedly she’d died, but here she was again–somewhat changed, but you couldn’t kill her. Not when the truest part of her hadn’t even been born.”

“Meaning can’t change from person to person, and still be true”

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”

“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them”

“Memories assailed him of how gently she had spoken, touched, and moved; of how she'd loved him fiercely despite his mistakes and obsessions and weaknesses. And the conviction descended on him that love like theirs couldn't possibly suffer any change.”