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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.”

“...of the things I want my daughters to know the greatest of these is love.”

“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?”