“Break a promise to the dead and they'll haunt you, Ada says. Keep the promise and they'll haunt you just the same.”

“Mothers! They promise you they'll never get married again, and next thing you know you're a bridesmaid.”

“...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...”

“If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.”

“I kept saying ‘always’ to her today, ‘always always always,’ and she j ust kept talking over me and not saying it back. It was like I wasalready gone, you know? ‘A lways’ was a promise! How can you j ust break the promise?”“Sometimes people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them,” I said.Isaac shot me a look. “Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.Don’t you believe in true love?”

“Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears. ”