“Sometimes it felt like looking at his face and just accepting the way things were between us was the hardest thing in the world.”

“Forgiving was the hardest thing. Sometimes forgiving was the hardest thing in the whole world.”

“Sometimes it's the things that are all around us that are hardest to see, especially love.”

“Sometimes the hardest thing any of us can hope for is finding the courage to be honest with ourselves.”

“I can see,’ Miss Emily said, ‘that it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. You were lucky pawns. There was a certain climate and now it’s gone. You have to accept that sometimes that’s how things happen in the world. People’s opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.’‘It might be just some trend that came and went,’ I said. ‘But for us, it’s our life.”

“Her body pressed against his felt like the most natural thing in the world, and the way she fit against him as though they were made for this embrace was overwhelming.”