“Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.”

“It was all so clear now. Like everything had been lost in darkness, and then the sun came out. Some moments are like that.”

“Now she realized she had never been kissed before. Not really. Not like this.Ah, never like this.”

“I saw you happy. Happier than you've been in a long time. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high.”

“There was a darkness in Jacob now. Like my sun had imploded.”

“All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.”