“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”

“She was calm and quiet now with knowing what she had always known, what neither her parents nor Aunt Claire nor Frank nor anyone else had ever had to teach her: that if you wanted something to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”

“But that's just the thing thought. Family isn't something that is supposed to be static or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else. Even that picture of James’s family was only the true representation for that day. By the next, something has probably changed. It had to.”

“I used to want you so bad, I'm so through with that because honestly you turned out to be the best thing I never had!”

“Do you want to make a point or do you want to make a change? do you want to get something off your chest, or do you want to get something done?”

“One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.”