“Scars are just another kind of memory.”

“There are still more days to travel in this life. And he knows that the man who makes the journey has been shaped by every day and every person along the way. Scars are just another kind of memory....Soon enough the days will close over their lives, the grass will grow over their graves, until their story is just an unvisited headstone.”

“Sometimes life turns out hard, Isabel. Sometimes it just bites right through you. And sometimes, just when you think it's done its worst, it comes back and takes another chunk.”

“They [the stars] just kept shining, no matter what was going on. I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that's fallen to earth: it just shines, no matter what is happening.”

“Perhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did.”

“When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear.”

“Our own star! Like the world's been made just for us! With the sunshine and the ocean. We have each other all to ourselves.”