“For as long as he could remember, he’d suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.”

“He’d known Lily forever. Or for as long as he could remember, which was basically the same thing.”

“He remembered the darkness and despair she'd suffered during her long years as a prisoner, but he also recalled the deep, unquenchable joy she took from the world around her; and he knew that given the choice, Wilamena would suffer all she had and more rather than sacrifice one day of being alive.It was just as his father had said. She chose life, all of it.”

“He’d sworn off sex, remember? Not unless he could do it properly, humanly, heartfully.”

“The last thing Mitch really remembered was…being on top of Sissy. He’d had a split second of thinking, “Wow. This feels really good.”

“[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.”