“To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.”

“Nick was chocolate and cigarettes and whiskey and danger, and everything I should stay away from.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

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

“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.”