“It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.”

“A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.”

“A moment might be a thousand different things.”

“All day she had been dreaming of the comet, its wild and fiery beauty, what it might mean, how her life might change.”

“...Caroline said easily, amazed all over again at this sudden facility she'd developed, the fluidity and ease of her lies.”

“The thing is, I used to like that: feeling special because I knew something no one else did. It's a kind of power, isn't it, knowing a secret? But lately I don't like it so much, knowing this. It's not really mine to know, is it?”

“Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.”