“After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.”

“And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.”

“Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.”

“When you are pregnant, you can think of nothing but having your own body to yourself again; yet after giving birth you realize that the biggest part of you is now somehow external, subject to all sorts of dangers and disappearance, so you spend the rest of your lifet rying to figure out how to keep her close enough for for comfort.”

“There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.”

“Once the world was pulled out from beneath your feet, did you ever get to stand on firm ground again?”

“From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand on the bottom and it only reached up to his chest.Darkness, you know, is relative.”