“I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.”

“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.”

“Have fun life is better that way.”

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

“Can you believe it's been over seventeen years since I've touched snow? Since I've heard that soft, comforting sound it makes as it crunches beneath your boots? It won't be much longer. I can feel it in my bones. Soon I'll have snow again. I'll stand in it and look up at the stars until I can no longer feel my feet.”

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