“For a split second, his finger touches my skin, and he might as well have brushed me with a lit match.”

“She was incapable of dragging herself away from him; Even though talking over the situation with him had shattered her, being without him would have been even worse,as if it were only his presence that was stopping the pieces flying away in all directions.”

“For the first time in my life, I fully understand the expression "I can't hear myself think.”

“Accidents illustrate that you have no control over your life, because from one moment to the next it could be taken away from you.”

“Like wading through water; That hard, that slow.”

“You didn't mind someone shutting out the world as long as they were happy to take you inside with them.”

“Men are so difficult - If they think you're trying to push them in a particular direction they dig in their heels and won't budge.”