“You're not the only one who copes by imagining things.”

“There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or reckless, but if you do that same thing twice, you're on your own.”

“No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burden of it for any one else.”

“Hadley didn't know it was possible to miss someone who's only a few feet away, but there it is.”

“I like how you're neither here nor there. And how there's nowhere else you're meant to be while waiting. You're just sort of suspended.”

“Beneath these was a small silver-edged photo album, and Emma breathed in at the sight of the engraved names: Tommy and Emma. She found herself smiling; she'd known somehow that he would have been a Tommy. And if he'd never had the chance to become any of the other things she'd imagined for him, she was happy that at least he'd had that.”

“It's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.”