“I wonder if you've got a minute."I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose.”

“I think about following her, but I want to give Zoe a minute alone with her mother. I want them to have the shift and redistribution of their relationship that I never got to have with my own mom, that acrobatic feat of love where everything is turned upside down and yet they are both still able to keep their balance.”

“I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.”

“Tears have a whole different melody, didn't they? without the pain threaded through them?_______ nineteen minutes .”

“I have loved before, but it didn’t feel like this.I have kissed before, but it didn’t burn me alive.Maybe it lasts a minute, and maybe it’s an hour. All I know is that kiss, and how soft her skin is when it brushes against mine, and that, even if I did not know it until now, I have been waiting for this person forever.”

“in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have your oil changed. You can walk a mile. You can sew a hem.In nineteen minutes you can get revenge.”

“She wondered if this was true of every parent: if, prior to having children, they all used to be someone else.”