“...one half leaning in, one half pulling away.”

“At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one." (from Vanishing Acts)”

“If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?”

“A bus cuts the world in half...”

“I knew that somewhere God was laughing. He had taken the other half of my heart, the one person who knew me better than I knew myself, and He had done what nothing else could do. By bringing us together, He had set into motion the one thing that could tear us apart.”

“In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.”

“How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?”