“With Thanksgiving approaching, I quietly hoped this would finally be the year I wouldn't find myself at the children's table.”

“I knew I wouldn't discover happiness in a faraway place or in unusual circumstances; it was right here, right now— as in the haunting play "The Blue Bird," where two children spend a year searching the world for the Blue Bird of Happiness, only to find it waiting for them when they finally return home.”

“And if I triedto give you something else,something outside myself,you would not knowthat the worst of anyonecan be, finally,an accident of hope”

“I set out on a narrow way many years ago, hoping I would find true love along the broken road”

“I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.”

“The question I should've been asking myself was, in ninety-nine years, how will I find another Forfeit who will survive the Feed? But the question I actually asked myself was, Could Nikki ever look at me the way she looked at Jack in those final moments?”