“Are we defined by where we want to go or where we've been?”

“Could we possibly be from the place we want to be? Were we from the place we died rather than the place we were born? Are our aspirations our home? Maybe we are from that place to which we're bound, and that's why desire hurts so much, this longing to find a place to rest, to get home. We're not from the past, but the future.”

“How do you choose between your kids and your parents? I feel like we're all just a bunch of vikings, moving around so we can pillage and burn, make a better living. Some choose their kids, some their parents, and some both. Some people just choose themselves,”

“I’ve come to the end of another book alive. At times like this I’m always at a loss for words.”

“Her whisper was, Lyman thought, like a Marlin ripping all the line out of a fishing rod.”

“I’ve been thinking alot and it’s not that anyone did anything wrong. We just didn’t know what we wanted. We weren’t thepeople we were supposed to be yet,”

“Anyone can face ease and success with confidence. It is the way we face trouble and misfortune that defines us.”