“Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”

“I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.”

“Sometimes it's better not to look back.”

“We were like astronauts floating through a starless universe.”

“..what an unchallenging life it would be if we always got things right on the first go.”

“I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.”

“Oggie sat facing us in a threadbare blazer and pajama bottoms, as if he'd been expecting company--just not pants-worthy company-- . . .”