“Maybe knowing where you belong is not equal to knowing who you are.”

“eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you”

“What if it turns out that a life isn’t defined by who you belong to or where you came from, by what you wished for or whom you’ve lost, but instead by the moments you spend getting from each of these places to the next?”

“She pictured how it would feel to trust your instincts in a strange land, to know the difference between where you had been and where you were going.”

“What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.”

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

“Is there anything more solid, more right, than knowing you child was where she ought to be?”