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

“If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would (hello!) find something else to love.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

“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.”