“You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.”

“I had always been suspicious of women who described the dissolution of their marriages as something that happened overnight. How could you not know? I'd thought. How could you miss all those signs? Well, let me tell you how: you were so busy putting out a fire directly in front of you that you were completely oblivious to the inferno raging at your back.”

“For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.”

“The mind is a remarcable thing. Just because you can’t see the wound doesn’t mean it isn’t hurting”

“There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.”

“You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you.""Was there a next time?""Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?”

“As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.”