“Not everyone believed in marriage then. To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too - that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.”

“To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.”

“People belong to each other only as long as they both believe. He stopped believing.”

“I hope we'll get lucky enough to grow old together.”

“It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together again, he might stay broken forever.”

“I would gladly have climbed out of my skin and into his that night, because I believed that was what love meant.”

“Books could be an incredible adventure. I stayed under my blanket and barely moved, and no one would have guessed how my mind raced and my heart soared with stories.”