“In some deep place in her heart, Caroline had kept alive the silly romantic notion that somehow David Henry had once known her as no one else ever could. But it was not true. He had never even glimpsed her.”
“He had never even glimpsed her.”
“Daisy had known the novel was silly even as she had read it, but that had not detracted one bit from her enjoyment.”
“It was as though she had some alter ego who told her she did not belong here. But she had never known anywhere else, and where else could there be?”
“No one could ever be for me what [he] had been because he had known me when, and that had kept me away from the true reality of my years.”
“She had the feeling that the door was looking at her, which she knew was silly, and knew on a deeper level was somehow true.”