“And in general, the residents of the town wondered why they all felt hollow just beneath the throat, the result of missing something they had never been able to name in the first place.”
“He felt homesick for places he had never been. He missed hearts he had never loved.”
“A middle-aged mother in a little town called Naples has been named Miss Dreamsville.”
“Generally to be angry at someone they have to have done something to upset or hurt you, and to be able to upset or hurt someone means you having to have meant something to them in the first place.”
“Being nothing felt quite the same as being something. Maybe she had never been something at all.”
“Why do you think you are missing something you never had?”