“Women clearly felt things more deeply: they read sub-text where men saw only white space.”

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

“Forgiveness is a powerful thing.”

“...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?”

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

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