“There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.”

“We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.”

“The past doesn't change no matter how much time you spend thinking about it. Good and bad all add up to the whole. Take away one piece, no matter how small, and the whole changes. Whether it's optimism, pessimism or fatalism, I don't spend my time wishing for the past to be different so present would be different, too. I control my future with what I choose now.”

“When everything changes we learn who we really are. What’s really important. What we wantmost. We discover the truth in moments of disarray.”

“My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.”

“I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.”

“Bess hadn't ever been good with change. She'd never been good with taking leaps of faith, or risks or changes. When something worked, she tended to stick with it.Even when something didn't.”