“There was a war between them, between love and the right thing to do, and it kept assaulting them, kept keeping them apart.”

“She was told it was magnetism that kept them engaged, and how do you separate magnets? You force them apart.”

“If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they’d love you more.”

“The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark. The longer they are kept apart—idea of thing, reality of thing—the wider the width, the deeper the depth, the thicker and darker the darkness.”

“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”

“No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them.”