“It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start”

“A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world”

“She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she’d thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130)”

“We want what's in this world but we also want what ain't.”

“It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)”

“Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope of heaven.”

“Don't love anything that can be taken away.”