“And I knew Nick’s love for Auntie Reba.He loved her in a way that was indescribable.It wasn’t like she walked on water or was the earth and moon and stars.It was different.It was breath.It was necessity.”

“And it was then I knew I was wrong. I wasn’t falling in love with Sam. I was already there.”

“But between these two men she loved, both in one way or another holding her close always, Clarisse Haines knew she would never fall.”

“I used to sleep the sleep of someone who knew she was loved. Now, I didn't.”

“Layne knew he was in love with her. Not only that, he’d never stopped loving her. Not once, not for a second, not for twenty-one years.Fuck him.”

“I totally, completely loved my nephew. I knew this from the instant he was born. But I rejoiced in it then, looking into his eyes because it made me understand that Darrin wasn’t really dead since that part of him was alive in his son.”

“Since I was three, there’s never been a day when I wasn’t in love with you.”