“she thought about being held to the woman's chest, and lying there hair-smoothed and quiet until she felt she'd found home. ”

“Up until today she'd felt as if she was surviving. Now she felt as though she was living.Everything was different.”

“She'd never felt about anyone the way she'd felt about him. Not even close. She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful.”

“She didn't like being twelve. It felt like someplace between who she'd been and who she was about to be. It felt like no place at all.”

“The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand.”

“Upon walking into Eva's kitchen, something profound happened to Delphine. She experienced a fabulous expansion of being. Light-headed, she felt a swooping sensation and then a quiet, as though she'd settled like a bird.”