“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.”

“Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.”

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

“Here in a place where there's just wind an waves and light, and the intricate machinery that keeps the flame burning and the lantern turning. Always turning. Always looking over its shoulder.”

“When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.”

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

“Scars are just another kind of memory.”