“Danger came in different packages, at different points in a lifetime.”

“ Change your point of view, and the perspective is completely different.”

“In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.”

“You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal?... A plan.”

“Maybe mothers - consciously or subconsciously - repelled their daughters in different ways.”

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”

“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”