“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”

“Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real”

“The catch was this: Power always involved loss of humanity.”

“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”

“You have to understand what you’re missing before you can really feel a loss.”

“It takes two people to make a lie work: the person who tells it, and the one who believes it.”

“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”