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

“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.”

“Laura wanted all of it back, every moment, so that she could live it all over again.”

“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?”