“Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso and others as rich as Rembrandt; some will be foreshortened and others distant. Recollections are in the eye of the beholder; no two held up side by side will ever quite match.”

“Recollections are in the eye of the beholder. No two held side by side can ever quite match.”

“Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?”

“When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.”

“It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.”

“Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation., and to others, like a pearl.”

“A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.”