“He clearly regarded finding the glove compartment locked now as a disappointing development. Like arriving someplace for dinner, assuming you'd be welcome, and finding your place setting in the cupboard.”
“In the lonely dark she goes again and again to that locked cupboard knowing that she holds the key, and frightened of the self she might find inside.”
“What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?”
“...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”
“If you can't find your way home, keep forward and find a place like home”
“If she fell, if she broke, you'd find a million fragments in the morning. Bright crystal and clear wine on the parquet flooring, that's all you'd see at dawn.”