“It was only then, raising my water glass in his name, that I knew what it meant to miss someone who was so many miles and hours away, just as he had missed his wife and daughters for so many months.”

“Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still. (page 103)”

“Sometimes I think there are only so many opportunities . . . to get together with someone. And we’ve both screwed up so many times”—my voice grows quiet—“that we’ve missed our chance.”

“I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples.”

“God gave you everything just to take it away. Just so you knew exactly what you were missing.”

“His biggest fear was that if and when he did find his missing daughter, she would no longer recognize who he had become in order to save her.”