“This feels nice. I could hold you forever.”
“Just hold me please,” she replied. I’d hold her forever if I could.”
“You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.”
“I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.”
“And so I think I got married because I thought that a ring would lock that love in forever, because it's very scary when it is just your feelings holding you together”
“It's funny about me,' Sophia said. 'I always feel like such a nice girl whenever there's a storm.'"'You do?' Grandmother said. 'Well, maybe ...' Nice, she thought. No. I'm certainly not nice. The best you could say of me is that I'm interested. [pp. 150-151]”