“The only people who see the whole picture,' he murmured, 'are the ones who step out of the frame.”

“Music, love, death. Certainly a triangle of sorts; maybe even an eternal one."The only people who can see the whole picture," he murmured, "are the ones who step out of the frame." (The ground beneath her feet.)”

“Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.”

“Out there was a man who had murdered his daughter. And another who had stepped on her heart. His hatred should be aimed at the one who killed her, but all he could picture was Yoshino being literally kicked out of that car.”

“I believe we can only see ourselves in shards of who we really are. Those who care and love us see us whole and fleshy. All the rest see us as a picture-perfect portrait.”

“A sibling would be the one person in the whole world who would be with you from birth until death. At every step, she or he would be there.”