“There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.”

“Add love, and a person might do something crazy. Add love, and all the lines between right and wrong were bound to disappear.”

“But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.”

“The crisis might be what sticks in my mind, but the in-between moments are the ones I would not have missed for the world.”

“Eli had learned long ago that you can stare right at something and not see what lies beneath the surface.”

“There's a cliff at the end point of a person's life; most us of peer over the edge of it, hanging on. That's why, when someone chooses to let go, it's so dramatically visible. The body will seem almost transparent. The eys will be looking at something the rest of us can't see.”

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