“No on thought that they would be anything more or less than perfectly fine.”

“... She might have thought that it was the case, that all things worked out in the end, and that the world was a benevolent place, but she knew better now, and had to fake it.”

“Things that happen in seven years: Brad Pitt in Tibet. The itch.”

“... She was as beautiful and lost as a landlocked mermaid.”

“She wanted the world to stop and take notice before hobbling forward, forever changed. The problem was that no one seemed to be changed but her.”

“That was what love was, though, wasn't it? Holding each other's misery as close as your own?”

“They were with their mother, and so they were acting like children.”