“What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?”

“Neither of us, it turns out, has been the only one who lost someone she loved.”

“In my previous life I was a civil attorney. At one point I truly believed that was what I wanted to be- but that was before I'd been handed a fistful of crushed violets from a toddler. Before I understood that the smile of a child is a tattoo: indelible art. ”

“It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches.”

“This is what it always comes down to, I realized. There are the ones who believe, and the ones who don't, and caught in the space between them are guns.”

“Here's what no one ever tells you about love: it hurts, having your heart broken”

“It was nice not having to be the one in control, for a little while. It was nice to be the one who was protected, instead of the one who'd been protecting eveyone else.”