“Zoe, sometimes people get so buried they can't do anything more than reach, let alone summon the strength to climb out.”
“It was not that she felt any allegiance to the truth. God knows she had cheated on too many men for the truth to be more than a stumbling block. But sometimes falsehood took more strength than she could summon up.”
“Polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than by leaving it alone.”
“The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.”
“And I know it doesn't last for anything more than a second-----sometimes there is perfect understanding between two people who can't stand one another.”
“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”