“It was like we had known all along that the sky was going to fall and then it fell and we pretended to be surprised.”

“What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?”

“He has never known a woman so free from conceit, vanity, ambition, pretense. He has never known a woman so willing to show the world that she is a human being.”

“All her life, Claire had had a problem figuring out where other people ended and she began. All her life, she’d taken on the world’s hurt; she held herself responsible. But why?”

“I will hold your hand and we will walk across this world, and I will sing to you and our babies, and that will be enough for me.”

“When you peered into the windows of someone else's life, you could only guess what was going on.”

“If everyone slept with the person he or she had secretly fallen in love with, the world would be chaos.”