“My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?”

“From the moment I told her about my dad, it was as if her whole body sighed in relief. As if someone else’s misery comforted her, made her feel as if she wasn’t alone.”

“She's belonged to me her whole life, but I only got my hands on her five months ago.”

“I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the equivalent of photographs in one's imagination of anyone's life. A whole life, I mean. I can picture her when she was much younger than I am - because there are always gestures and expressions that are ingrained, ageless. An old woman doesn't see herself as an old woman, and neither do I. I try to see her her whole life in her. There's something so moving about someone's whole life.”

“I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.”

“My whole life is about forgetting. It's my most valuable job skill.”