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

“It was nice to be in such close physical proximity, even though they hadn't spoken in months, and only via cursory birthday cards and the like. In the end, it didn't matter. Sisters were sisters.”

“Even if she wasn't happy on the inside, the outside could be something else entirely. There was always another character to play.”

“Laura was going to sew herself into the shape of happiness all on her own.”

“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.”